xinetd 2.1.8.9pre15 is out.
It includes a patch (SENSOR) from a friend of mine that basically gives
the ability to stop port scanning script kiddies before they do any
harm. In a nut shell, what is does is to monitor an unused port likely
to be scanned by kiddies, and when it get scanned, it denies further
access to all other services to the offending IP(s) until a preset
time-out period expires. We need lots of users to test this, so a cooker
upgrade is ideal.
pre15 also contains several other fixes.
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Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE
Linux Engineer
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