owl-users - Re: xinetd and loadavg support

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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 03:07:50 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: xinetd and loadavg support

On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 02:11:24PM +0200, Bernd 'beli' Liebscher wrote:
> why is xinetd not compiled with loadavg support? i like
> this feature, because it can prevent denial of service
> attacks in some situations.

No special reason, I just didn't think it's desired.  But the code
looks OK (at least no worse than the rest of xinetd), so I guess I'll
enable it.

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/sd