Your cure is worse than the disease: rate limiting allows a DoS against theservice, no limit allows a DoS against the whole machine. Cheers,Paul Szabo - psz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney 2006 Australia
Isn't that the point of system administration, to set reasonable values for such things. A balance between a reasonable load and a full DOS attack on the service or machine must be achieved.
I don't see how this feature is bad as long as its used properly. Besides many people run multiple services on a host.. if you set the value to unlimited all services are DOS'd. For instance, I have a system running apache, sendmail, and imapd. imapd is spawned by inetd and therefore could be DOS'd with a limit. By setting a limit though, my apache and sendmail servers stay up. I think this is a no brainer.
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