Re: sudden (and selective) autism
On Sat, 19 Apr 2003, Jim McCloskey wrote:
> A little checking quickly revealed that the connection requests that
> were being refused were all and only those dealt with by services
> started by inetd
[snip]
> The file /etc/inetd.conf seemed unchanged, but the logs had this at 10
> minute intervals:
If inetd receives too many connections within a 1 minute period, it will
cut off service for 10 minutes. Apparently this is a "feature" to limit
memory usage or something. Someone was probably exploiting this to cause
a DoS on your machine.
- .\\
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