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Re: the netbase/inetd conspiracy



On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 07:55:55PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Of course, inetd can't start any daemons that aren't already there.

It can start its internal services, ie: discard, echo, time and daytime
on both tcp and udp.  The udp versions of the latter three allow trivial
denial of services attacks, if you have any way of spoofing a packet at
all (which, on the Internet, you do).

Cheers,
aj

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