Re: inetd or xinetd
On 9/8/06, Ismael Valladolid Torres <ivalladt@punkass.com> wrote:
inetd is more than ok for a personal environment, why not also for a
professional setup. xinetd is far more featured, though, and it's been
the default for Red Hat systems for years.
I would say that the choice between the two is defined not by how
'professional' your host is, but rather by the hostility of the
networking environment. Xinetd can limit the number of connections and
running processes, preventing some DoS attacks. Xinetd also has a more
extensive logging. There are other improvements over inetd (see xinetd
faq [0], for example, or this article [1]). So, if your network is not
well protected, you may want to replace inetd with xinetd (and don't
forget to configure it properly :))
[0] http://www.xinetd.org/faq.html
[1] http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/November2000/article175.shtml
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With best regards,
Dmitri Minaev
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