Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 14:55:35 -0700 From: Jamie Lawrence <jal@ThirdAge.com> To: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart), jbryant@unix.tfs.net Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Fwd: Secure Ping 1.0] Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980611145535.00cd74e0@204.74.82.151> In-Reply-To: <E0ykEuh-0004oj-00@oak71.doc.ic.ac.uk> References: <Jamie Lawrence <jal@ThirdAge.com>
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At 10:29 PM 6/11/98 +0100, Niall Smart wrote: >On Jun 11, 1:28pm, Jamie Lawrence wrote: >> I don't think it would do much of anything to curb nasty practices >> on the net, except for limiting the relatively unsophisticated types >> who, say, use flood.c against spam sites and quake servers. >> >> Exactly the type of user I tend to use a rather more course grained >> resource limit on, and kick them off my system. > >:) Yes, resource limitation is no panacea, the main goal of the idea is >for ISP's to ration bandwith among their customers, and secondly to stop >these kind of idiots from doing too much damage before you boot them off. Definitely useful for that. I tend to forget about ISP dilemmas... If implemented, I'd suggest a soft-limit to warn people that their telnet sessions are about to stop responding, etc. -j To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message
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