Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 17:24:35 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> To: The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.dyndns.org> Cc: Andrew Johns <johnsa@kpi.com.au>, Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: General Rate-limiting in syslog(3) (was: Limiting closed port RST response from 381 to 200 p) Message-ID: <14272.1018884275@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:14:22 -0400." <20020415151422.GA302@lenny.anarcat.dyndns.org>
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On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:14:22 -0400, The Anarcat wrote: > Actually, what I would like would be a generic rate-limiting facility > in syslog(3) itself. That would make DOS much harder. There already is; that's what my patch relies on. It's just that syslog's rate-limiting relies on messages being identical. Anything more complicated is probably going to involve a new API, which is probably more than what's required here. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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