On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 10:48:47AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 01:40:51AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > I would like to see inetd leave the base system as well, but what problem > > could you possibly have with the discard service? > > Well it's been so long since I've seen it in the wild, but doesn't this > service just eat whatever you throw at it? In a cents per meg scenario, > someone malicious could use this service to cost the person running it > some big dollars.
Yes, it receives data from the network and throws it away. But I don't see how this figures into your example. If you can give me an scenario where this service would allow a malicious remote user to DoS anything other than the discard service itself, that would be interesting. Otherwise, I'm inclined to say that it's quite harmless (and indeed useful). -- - mdz
