At 05:31 23/02/99 -0000, you wrote:
>On http://lwn.net/daily/ptable.html is a description of denial of
>service process table attacks. Am I correct that tcpserver limits
>fork() calls to a specified number, and therefore alleviates the
>situation?
Correct. As long as you run all of your services via tcpserver.
Whilst some inetd implementations have crude forms of DOS protection
(initially created for other reasons) I'm not aware of too many that protect
against concurrency - most do it by rate.
Regards.
