Re: udp packet storms

[avalon () coombs anu edu au (Darren Reed)]

> This is yet another reason why you should disable echo, discard,
> chargen, and any other inetd tcp/udp debugging service.  It's
> surprising how many people leave those in inetd.conf.

Sorry, I missed out on the reason why we should disable discard.
Would you mind explaining it ?  I thought it was like it's name sake -
a sink hole (blackhole if you like) for packets.  Sort of like /dev/null.

the others I can understand given broken performance with broadcast
addresses...