Re: Jul 9 08:06:03 all inetd[122]: httpd/tcp server failing
Darren Reed (avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au)
Mon, 10 Jul 1995 08:40:46 +1000
In some mail from Dr. Frederick B. Cohen, sie said:
>
> I was trying a loop test to stress performance on our secure W3
> server and found that inetd under SunOS detects what it thinks to be
> loops and shuts down all httpd services untill a kill -HUP is sent to
> the inetd process. How is this bug/feature controlled, and doesn't this
> lead very directly to denial of services attacks?
There is a patch from Sun, already, for this.
Have you applied this already ?
Maybe you need to be running xinetd ?
darren