>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.