[110] in bugtraq
Re: udp packet storms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darren Reed)
Sun Oct 30 01:33:46 1994
From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
To: cellwood@gauss.ELEE.CalPoly.EDU (Chris Ellwood)
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 1994 14:19:45 +1100 (EDT)
Cc: newsham@zang.kcc.hawaii.edu, bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <9410300148.AA26205@gauss.ELEE.CalPoly.EDU> from "Chris Ellwood" at Oct 29, 94 06:48:11 pm
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> 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...
