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Re: Some misc. info/recommendations on nmap crashing inetd


From: <lamont () icopyright com>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 13:09:45 -0700 (PDT)


IIRC, if you turn off all the "internal" services (discard, daytime,
chargen, etc) you can prevent the inetd DoS.  This was talked about a long
time ago on BUGTRAQ and there was a good post by Casper Dik on what the
bug is.



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