Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 08:42:18 -0600 From: Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to> To: Richard Ward <mh@neonsky.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Limiting connections w/ ftpd Message-ID: <20010205084218.A19317@billygoat.slb.to> In-Reply-To: <009d01c08f3d$f7a77de0$0101a8c0@pavilion>; from mh@neonsky.net on Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 01:36:23AM -0500 References: <009d01c08f3d$f7a77de0$0101a8c0@pavilion>
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> I've been recently getting flooded with connections via ftp, and I > was wondering how to limit ftp connections per IP address to stop > "connection floods" from a single host name. I can't find much > documentation on the standard FreeBSD "ftpd" that explains how this > would be done. ftpd doesn't know how many simultaneous connections are being made, since each ftpd only handles one connection; inetd handles the starting of multiple daemons. Stock inetd does not have a facility for concurrency limits. You'll have to use /TCP Wrappers/ or /ucspi-tcp/; they're both in ports. I've used /ucspi-tcp/ with good results. Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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