Re: Does anyone know what this is ?
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:58:26PM +0100, Gavin Hamill wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Benj wrote:
>
> > I run top, and see this process:
> > 7705 0.0 % -discard [164.138.*.*]
> >
> > What is this process -discard ?? The IP (from which i've hidden the last two
> > numbers) is totally unknown, its not my servers's or mine.
>
> discard is a TCP service provided by inetd itself which just ignores any
> input fed to it. That IP is connecting to your machine and spewing data
> into inetd. It's not harming your machine, but it will be wasting
> bandwidth.
>
> > Do you think I should kill it ?
>
> More than that, I'd disable discard, and it's friends daytime, echo, and
> chargen in /etc/inetd.conf. then '/etc/init.d/inetd restart'
okay, now for the Big Question -- "why"? i.e. is there a danger
in "offering" the 'daytime','echo', etc services from xinetd?
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