Subject: Re: Next try: sysklogd 1.4
From: Martin Schulze (joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de)
Date: Mon Sep 18 2000 - 11:26:34 CEST
Olaf Kirch wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 09:36:26AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > There were some more fixes, so this is the next release candidate:
>
> I just looked at the source and noticed that Unix stream sockets are back.
s/back/still there/
> Didn't we have a discussion about switching to datagram sockets about
> a year ago? I have a patch in my source RPM that does this, and the
> reason it's there was to avoid DoS attacks by clients that ate up
> syslogd's file descriptor pool. The second problem this patch fixes
> was flooding a syslogd that listens to UDP packets with ICMP errors.
Wasn't there a discussion that this would involve changes in the libc
as well?
Regards,
Joey
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