Hendrik (and other posters), when finding similar problems in SuSE or other products, you may also wish to post to the related-product security list, such as suse-securityat_private Not all who use a product read bugtraq, many read only the list specific to themselves. (their loss perhaps. :) Thanks On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 08:29:48PM -0000, Hendrik Scholz wrote: > Hi! > > The inetd.conf starts the identd with the options -w -t120 > -e. > This means that one identd process waits 120 seconds after > answering the first request to answer later request. > Lets say we start 100 requests in a short period. > Due to the fact that it takes time to answer one request > more identd's will be started each eating up about 900kb > memory and waiting 120 seconds before terminating. > I tested this behaviour on different machines with different > hardware (RAM, Swap, NIC). > Each machine becomes unusable after some seconds. > This bug is in _every_ SuSE Version at least since 4.4. > SuSE seems not to be interested in this bug becaus they > did not answer any of my mails. > > CU, Hendrik -- Seth Arnold | ICQ 3172483 | http://cswww.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ I prosecute unsolicited bulk emails, using the RealTime BlackHole List. You should too. Ask me how, or visit http://maps.vix.com/rbl/
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