Re: finger-bombing

Yedidya Israel (yedidya@bimacs.cs.biu.ac.il)
Thu, 13 Oct 94 18:25:24 EET

>From the keyboard of That Whispering Wolf...:
> This does bring up an interesting idea for improvements to xinetd/inetd
> or whatever, though -- Why not have a config option that you can set so
> that if more than X number of requests for Y service were received from
> Z host in A time, the service shut off requests from that host for 
> 5/10/15 minutes. Would that feature really be useful, and be worth the
> overhead? Personally,

Untill implemented use wait option of inetd for for X=1, Y=<service>,
Z=any :-)

-- 
Yedidya Israel,
System Administrator.