Marco d'Itri dixit:
>On Jun 21, Thorsten Glaser <t...@mirbsd.de> wrote:
>
>> The /etc/inetd.conf file does not contain even commented-out
>> lines for the standard services.
>I am surely not going to encourage people configuring the UDP small
>services, which are a source of reflection DoS attacks.
Oh damn, I didn’t look at who the package maintainer is… *sigh*…
>> It’d also be a good idea to document all internal services in the
>> manual pages.
>They are:
>
> inetd provides several “trivial” services internally by use of routines
> within itself. These services are “echo”, “discard”, “chargen” (charac‐
> ter generator), “daytime” (human readable time), and “time” (machine
Huh, indeed, but…
> readable time, in the form of the number of seconds since midnight, Janu‐
> ary 1, 1900). All of these services are TCP based. For details of these
… this isn’t right, they also do work over UDP. (This is very useful
when testing network services.)
> services, consult the appropriate RFC from the Network Information Cen‐
> ter.
bye,
//mirabilos
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