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Date:      Mon, 31 Jul 2000 16:00:51 +0100
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl>
Cc:        David Malone <dwmalone@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/inetd inetd.c
Message-ID:  <20000731160051.A835@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <20000731152252.B69002@lucifer.bart.nl>; from jruigrok@via-net-works.nl on Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 03:22:52PM %2B0200
References:  <200007311310.GAA17518@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000731152252.B69002@lucifer.bart.nl>

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On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 03:22:52PM +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:

> Was inetd abused as a kid?

;-)

> Seriously, what do you mean with traumatise?

Wietse views it as a defensive programming method. The idea is that
a tcp wrappers rejection might cause a rapid reconnection to inetd.
If this happens too quickly inetd may shut down the service on a
tempory basis.

	David.


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