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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.

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