On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> There are other ways. For example, even if a user account is resource
> limited, root processes (such as sendmail, popper, identd, and so forth)
> are not. Attacks against these servers generally result in very high
> loads and sometimes make it difficult to login to fix the problem, but do
> not result in running out of swap.
Inetd is rate-limited by default nowadays, so this really doesn't apply.
>
> -Matt
> Matthew Dillon
> <dil...@backplane.com>
>
>
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