>>>>> On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, "Alain" == Alain Tesio wrote:
Alain> Hello,
Alain> When I make a lot of connections with cyradm in a row, the connection
Alain> fails after processing some of them, I don't know where this limit
Alain> comes from, the problem is that the imap server is definitely not
Alain> available, see details below.
Alain> Is it a known behaviour when imapd is started from inetd, do you
Alain> consider this as a vulnerability to a DOS attack ?
>From the inetd man page:
The optional ``max'' suffix (separated from ``wait'' or ``nowait'' by
a dot) specifies the maximum number of server instances that may be
spawned from inetd within an interval of 60 seconds. When omitted, ``max''
defaults to 40.
-d
