[118] in bugtraq
Re: udp packet storms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Ellwood)
Sun Oct 30 15:42:17 1994
From: cellwood@gauss.ELEE.CalPoly.EDU (Chris Ellwood)
To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 1994 11:43:26 -0800 (PST)
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <199410300324.WAA28696@freeside.fc.net> from "Darren Reed" at Oct 30, 94 02:19:45 pm
Darren Reed said...
> > 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.
Yes, that's correct. But if you aren't using it for anything, then it's
probably safe to disable it.
- Chris
