Re: Denial of service process table attacks

[Justin M. Streiner]

On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Mark Delany wrote:

> 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.

Too bad similar protection isn't currently available for udp and RPC
services :-)

jms