> > On Sat, 29 Oct 1994, Pat Myrto wrote: > > <snip> > > > That's interesting - it amounts to a feedback loop (in electrical > > or audio terminology). Is there a way to interrupt this sort of > > thing (short of killing inetd or the involved daemon) or rebooting (a > > drastic method of doing the same thing)? > > > > How would one prevent this without disabling the udp services? > > Hmm; I wonder if it's possible to tell tcpd to rate-limit a particular > service? tcpd no. inetd, (sort of), yes. yes if you compiled it and set it. Being able to set this in inetd.conf would be nice, yes ? xinetd...source...hack... oh, and inetd does have an inbuilt "rate-limit" which if gets tripped results in the service being deactivated...as a point of interest, there was a patch for inetd (last year or so ?) for Sun's inetd because it was shutting down services which were being called too often through legitamate use - it used to catch failing services, but now (with faster h/w) was doing the 'wrong thing'.