Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 18:41:39 -0400 (EDT) From: John Capo <jc@irbs.com> To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: satan "heavy" mode attacks Message-ID: <199504082241.SAA00738@irbs.com> In-Reply-To: <199504081658.MAA29650@ns1.win.net> from "Mark Hittinger" at Apr 8, 95 12:58:56 pm
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Mark Hittinger writes: > > > I've just read that some sites are reporting that using satan in its "heavy" > mode will overload an inetd and make it toss its cookies. > > There are reports that the activity also causes some firewall products to > consume available memory and discontinue logging some things. > > We probably need to double check our inetd and make sure it can deal with > the resource overload issue. > I have run the "heavy" Satan against four -current systems and three 1.1.5.1 systems and they survived just fine. YMMV :-) John Capo
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