>
>
> Your cure is worse than the disease: rate limiting allows a DoS
> against the
> service, no limit allows a DoS against the whole machine.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul Szabo - psz (at) maths.usyd.edu (dot) au [email concealed]
> 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.

Lucas Holt
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