Re: Possible DoS attack with new IPlogger release

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > The new version of IPlogger offers a new feature: when there is a TCP > connection attempt, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is now logged instead of "host". I think this is a non issue. Lots of servers do ident lookups, in particular the tcp wrapper does so too. -

Possible DoS attack with new IPlogger release

Hi. The new version of IPlogger offers a new feature: when there is a TCP connection attempt, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is now logged instead of "host". However, if strobe is run on localhost, a connection to identd is done at each connection, and then the auth service is disabled after about 60 connec