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Re: Jul 9 08:06:03 all inetd[122]: httpd/tcp server failing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darren Reed)
Mon Jul 10 00:48:37 1995
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 08:40:46 +1000
Reply-To: Bugtraq List <BUGTRAQ@CRIMELAB.COM>
From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
X-To: "Dr. Frederick B. Cohen" <fc@all.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@CRIMELAB.COM>
In-Reply-To: <9507091216.AA00623@all.net> from "Dr. Frederick B. Cohen" at Jul
9, 95 08:16:58 am
In some mail from Dr. Frederick B. Cohen, sie said:
>
> I was trying a loop test to stress performance on our secure W3
> server and found that inetd under SunOS detects what it thinks to be
> loops and shuts down all httpd services untill a kill -HUP is sent to
> the inetd process. How is this bug/feature controlled, and doesn't this
> lead very directly to denial of services attacks?
There is a patch from Sun, already, for this.
Have you applied this already ?
Maybe you need to be running xinetd ?
darren
