Re: denial of service - inetd on solaris 2.4?

[jpf () mig com (Jack Flory)]

Brad Powell's original thesis:
> You should probably just turn off echo, discard, daytime and chargen
> as well. From the comment in inetd.conf:
> # Echo, discard, daytime, and chargen are used primarily for testing.

Alas, some routers use rdate to set their clock on boot.
daytime is still required in that case.  However, I agree
with you even to the point on killing off inetd on
exposed machines.


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