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Re: 2.2.18pre kernel net problem

To: mhouston@xxxxxxx (Shawn Houston)
Subject: Re: 2.2.18pre kernel net problem
From: kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 22:13:26 +0300 (MSK)
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <3A1625E0.D60E1EC7@gci.net> from "Shawn Houston" at Nov 18, 0 10:15:00 am
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Hello!

> This represents a serious DOS attack and should be fixed. Really.

Funny, this bug in inetd has age of several years. 8)

Workaround is not to use "internal" time service in inetd.conf,
use your own one. Or to use some old inetd, sort of dated by 1996 or so.

Alexey

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