Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 21:35:28 +0400 From: "Oleg Strizhak" <admin@pcbtech.ru> To: "Ryan Kelley" <kelleyry@bc.edu> Cc: <freebsd-security@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: xinetd versus inetd Message-ID: <001a01c006df$44803360$a4df36c3@Inforser.Ru> References: <39B6595C@netfin6.bc.edu>
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> I could be wrong (it's happened before) but as far as i know the main > difference is that inetd is subject to DoS attacks, as it will suck up as much > memory as it wants filling requests. xinetd prevents against this. on a > semi-related note, where's tcpserver in this equation, and is anyone running > non-qmail services in tcpserver? > -ryan have a small set of services (ftp+qmail) but tcpserver handles'em nice. All other (httpd, ssh, ...) are standalone. Have no probs ... yet Oleg Strizhak To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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