"Dr. Frederick B. Cohen" writes: > 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? > > Jul 9 08:06:03 all inetd[122]: httpd/tcp server failing (looping), service t erminated BUGTRAQ is for security holes, not for vendor features, no matter how misguided. Having said that: This is in fact a standard Berkeley inetd feature -- you need source to turn it off, although I believe Sun has a "patch" for 4.1.x that consists of an inetd with an option to turn off the "feature". .pm