Re: DOS on inetd w/ nmap

[pete () S3 INTEGRALIS CO UK (Pete Philips)]

"Clifford, Shawn A" wrote:
> I have nmap version 2.12 (the latest stable version), and 'nmap -h' doesn't
> show me those options for -T.  To be fair, I didn't read through the man
> page for nmap in any detail before launching my scans.

Timing support (-T) was added to Nmap at 2.3 beta 6. The latest is
2.3 beta 21.

Richard Johnson wrote:
> On IRIX, inetd is croaking because it has problems with its built-in support
> for small services.  Turning those off (specifically echo, tcpmux) in
> inetc.conf was the solution SGI suggested for keeping inetd running on an O2K.
>  This is reportedly fixed in IRIX 6.5.2, but I don't have bug ID or patch ID
> info.

Alternatively you might consider abandoning inetd altogether and
switching to xinetd. This offers much improved functionality
and a number of nifty security advances such as being able to
bind a service to a particular interface. Check out:

http://synack.net/xinetd

Pete.

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