[MBT] new entry in pkg oidentd "Buffer overflow..."

Tomasz Kłoczko kloczek at rudy.mif.pg.gda.pl
Tue Oct 22 09:48:16 CEST 2002


On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Marcin Krol wrote:
[..]
> > it will cause next indent from <host> .. classic indent ping-pong.
> > How to avoid this ? Simple for do not use indent specyfic ruler for indent rntrues in hosts.{allow,deny}.
> > Summarize: this not bug .. this feacture :)
> >
> > *** State changed to 'ignored'
> 
> OK. I know this. But... If there are no rules for ident in
> hosts.{allow,deny}, and single ident request from some host/service
> causes, lets say 7000 oidentd processes, this is not a classic ident
> ping-pong.

Try run spare 7000 httpd waiting for incoming connection and you will have
similar stuaction. Is this in this case bug in httpd ? No because this 
configuration bug as same as not inteligent using indent lookup rules in  
hosts.{allow,deny}.

kloczek
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