[PLUG] inetd

[Ed Sawicki]

On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 15:31, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Michael C. Robinson wrote:
>   According to the notice from the Slackware security e-mail I received
> (which prompted my question), inetd would shut down if 250 requests came in
> over a short period of time. And, it would remain shut down for 10 minutes.
> So, a DoS could be effective by sending a very few packets every 10 minutes
> and keeping 'Net services shut off.
> 
>   It may be that xinetd avoids the problem.
> 
>   But, neither appear to be required so why run them anyway?

You don't need them if you don't need to launch daemons on
demand. I almost never run them on workstations and I try
to avoid using them on servers. 

Ed