Re: Why not inetd?

2000-06-07 Thread Peter Samuel
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Peter Samuel wrote: > > >I've never seen this. How? What operating system? What version of > >inetd? You've got me curious now. > > > >Regards > >Peter > >-- > > man inetd > > pop3 stream tcp nowait.120 root /v

Re: Why not inetd?

2000-06-06 Thread clemensF
> Peter van Dijk: > Research shows that FreeBSD 4.0's inetd actually doesn't have these > misfeatures anymore - it has a concurrency limit (yes, really!) and a > max-connections-per-minute-per-remote-IP. starting with at most 2.8.8, it has. freebsd 2.8.8 is my religion. clemens

Re: Why not inetd?

2000-06-06 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
I'm not following??? On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, clemensF wrote: >> John Gonzalez/netMDC admin: > >> On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Peter Samuel wrote: >> >I've never seen this. How? What operating system? What version of >> >inetd? You've got me curious now. >> >> man inetd > >this is one of those things. we ar

Re: Why not inetd?

2000-06-06 Thread clemensF
> John Gonzalez/netMDC admin: > On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Peter Samuel wrote: > >I've never seen this. How? What operating system? What version of > >inetd? You've got me curious now. > > man inetd this is one of those things. we are used to spend five minutes on inetd.conf using vendor-supplied-tem

Re: Why not inetd?

2000-06-06 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Peter Samuel wrote: >I've never seen this. How? What operating system? What version of >inetd? You've got me curious now. > >Regards >Peter >-- man inetd pop3 stream tcp nowait.120 root /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env tcp-env.. -- ___ _ __ _

Re: Why not inetd?

2000-06-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 07:22:25PM +1000, Peter Samuel wrote: > On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote: > > > > While i agree with Peter that tcpserver is superior, i dont want people > > getting the wrong idea of inetd. > > > > inetd by default has the above behaviour, but can be

Re: Why not inetd?

2000-06-06 Thread Peter Samuel
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote: > > While i agree with Peter that tcpserver is superior, i dont want people > getting the wrong idea of inetd. > > inetd by default has the above behaviour, but can be overridden in the > configuration file to accept any number of connections

Re: Why not inetd?

2000-06-05 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5 Jun 00, at 12:02, John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote: > inetd by default has the above behaviour, but can be overridden in the > configuration file to accept any number of connections. That's bad, too. I want to limit the number of live incoming

Re: Why not inetd?

2000-06-05 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Peter Samuel wrote: >It has a rate limiting "feature" whereby it will stop servicing a port >for 10 MINUTES if it thinks the rate of incoming connections is too >high (I have flat lined a remote inetd with qmail-remote from a 14k4 >modem). tcpserver doesn't care about rate, it

Re: Why not inetd?

2000-06-05 Thread Gjermund Sorseth
> I run a relatively low traffic mailserver. > It runs qmail smptd and pop3 from inetd. > I hear all the time that inetd sucks, but i never hear any reasons why. > So my question is: why does inetd sucks? > > /Magnus Näslund It does not give the programs it runs any information

Re: Why not inetd?

2000-06-05 Thread Peter Samuel
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Magnus Naeslund wrote: > I run a relatively low traffic mailserver. > It runs qmail smptd and pop3 from inetd. > I hear all the time that inetd sucks, but i never hear any reasons why. > So my question is: why does inetd sucks? Two that immediately come to mind: No inbuilt s

Why not inetd?

2000-06-05 Thread Magnus Naeslund
I run a relatively low traffic mailserver. It runs qmail smptd and pop3 from inetd. I hear all the time that inetd sucks, but i never hear any reasons why. So my question is: why does inetd sucks? /Magnus Näslund