Re: finger-bombing

[yedidya () bimacs cs biu ac il (Yedidya Israel)]

> From the keyboard of That Whispering Wolf...:
> This does bring up an interesting idea for improvements to xinetd/inetd
> or whatever, though -- Why not have a config option that you can set so
> that if more than X number of requests for Y service were received from
> Z host in A time, the service shut off requests from that host for 
> 5/10/15 minutes. Would that feature really be useful, and be worth the
> overhead? Personally,

Untill implemented use wait option of inetd for for X=1, Y=<service>,
Z=any:-)

-- 
Yedidya Israel,
System Administrator.