From owner-cvs-all Mon Jul 31 8: 1: 3 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 48B4537BBB9; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 08:00:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 31 Jul 2000 16:00:51 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 16:00:51 +0100 From: David Malone To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Cc: David Malone , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/inetd inetd.c Message-ID: <20000731160051.A835@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <200007311310.GAA17518@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000731152252.B69002@lucifer.bart.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.2i In-Reply-To: <20000731152252.B69002@lucifer.bart.nl>; from jruigrok@via-net-works.nl on Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 03:22:52PM +0200 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 03:22:52PM +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > Was inetd abused as a kid? ;-) > Seriously, what do you mean with traumatise? Wietse views it as a defensive programming method. The idea is that a tcp wrappers rejection might cause a rapid reconnection to inetd. If this happens too quickly inetd may shut down the service on a tempory basis. David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message