Debian Bug report logs - #41568
[Liviu.Daia@imar.ro: Re: limiting IP connections]

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From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cs.leidenuniv.nl>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: [Liviu.Daia@imar.ro: Re: limiting IP connections]

Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 14:15:25 +0200

Package: xinetd
Severity: normal

Please read this post. It seems the Debian xinetd package is tracking a
dead version of xinetd.

Wichert.

----- Forwarded message from Liviu Daia <Liviu.Daia@imar.ro> -----

Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 10:07:19 +0300
From: Liviu Daia <Liviu.Daia@imar.ro>
To: security-audit@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk
Subject: Re: limiting IP connections

On 14 July 1999, Solar Designer <solar@false.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >     I want to limit incoming connections per IP. That is, I want a
> > maximum number of tcp/udp connections from an specefied IP to my
> > server.  I want this in order to prevent DoS attacks from a single
> > source.
> >
> >     I'm currently using Debian/GNU Linux 2.1 (slink) with kernel
> > 2.0.37 and with xinetd.
>
> This was on the list already; I'll just repeat the URL now:
>
>       ftp://ftp.dataforce.net/pub/solar/xinetd-2.2.1-SD1.diff
>
> Maybe your vote will increase the chances of this getting into Debian.
> ;-)

    On a related topic: xinetd development seems to have forked some
time ago, both projects keeping the name xinetd.  Now, AFAICT, the 2.2.1
branch has been effectively dead for more than two years.  The other
branch seems to be alive and well, the latest version is (confusingly)
2.1.8.6b5, and can be found at

	http://synack.net/xinetd/

At least some of the issues addressed by your patch have been fixed ---
but I didn't check the details.

    Regards,

    Liviu Daia

-- 
Dr. Liviu Daia               e-mail:   Liviu.Daia@imar.ro
Institute of Mathematics     web page: http://www.imar.ro/~daia
of the Romanian Academy      PGP key:  http://www.imar.ro/~daia/daia.asc


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Subject: latest xinetd Debian package (2.1.8.7) fixes these problems

Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 20:46:22 +0100

Hi people, 

All these problems you reported against Debian xinetd package
are fixed now. Please upgrade, if you can.

In case you wondered, the bugs haven't been closed until now because the
package maintainer wasn't around, and the package is in fact orphaned. I am
doing this as a member of the quality assurance group.

Thanks for reporting...

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