On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     There are other ways.  For example, even if a user account is resource
>     limited, root processes (such as sendmail, popper, identd, and so forth)
>     are not.  Attacks against these servers generally result in very high
>     loads and sometimes make it difficult to login to fix the problem, but do
>     not result in running out of swap.

Inetd is rate-limited by default nowadays, so this really doesn't apply.

> 
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon@backplane.com>
> 
> 

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