From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 18 4: 7:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at [128.130.111.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E965A15105 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 04:07:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at) Received: from markab (markab [128.130.111.33]) by vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA08719; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 13:07:33 +0100 (MET) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 13:07:32 +0100 (MET) From: Gerald Pfeifer To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: inetd(8) MFCed. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 18 Nov 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > I've merged the latest inetd(8) from -CURRENT, so -STABLE's inetd now > has a fully function built-in ident server, and should no longer be > vulnerable to the 'nmap -sT' DoS. Thanks a lot! This will save us quite some grief, for indeed we experienced "dead" systems after "regular" `nmap -sT` scans. Gerald -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message