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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!uct.ac.za!quagga.ru.ac.za!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!news.maz.net!unlisys!news.bb-data.de!news From: mib@ppe.bb-data.de Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: how to increase socket timeout Date: 13 Sep 1996 09:54:21 +0200 Organization: BB-DATA GmbH, Berlin, Germany Lines: 12 Sender: mib@LOSIRA Message-ID: <uwwxyhmtu.fsf@ppe.bb-data.de> References: <50k99v$53p@crl.crl.com> <50n895$t34@dira.rv.tis.com> <50om56$t72@innocence.interface-business.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 10.11.4.39 X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) writes: > It would be better to have them ignored in the first place. Certainly, but ... > Otherwise, some Bad Guy could swamp your logfiles by sending excessive > amounts of DNS packets. ... if you do _any_ kind of logging, a bad guy can _always_ swamp your logfiles. If I were the bad guy, I'd probably just to a couple of thousands of port scans.