Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 00:19:14 -0400 From: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@goof.com> To: Mark Hittinger <bugs@ns1.win.net> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: satan "heavy" mode attacks Message-ID: <199504100419.AAA02586@goof.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, April 8, 1995 12:58:56 -0400 References: <199504081658.MAA29650@ns1.win.net>
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On Sat, April 8, 1995 at 12:58:56 (-0400), Mark Hittinger wrote:
> I've just read that some sites are reporting that using satan in its "heavy"
> mode will overload an inetd and make it toss its cookies.
> There are reports that the activity also causes some firewall products to
> consume available memory and discontinue logging some things.
> We probably need to double check our inetd and make sure it can deal with
> the resource overload issue.
I've run *several* heavy level satan checks against goof.com over a
T1 connection and haven't had a problem at all...
-matt
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