On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Chris wrote: > Well...then the query is at your control - and if you make a single > query take a full second (or more) then it will take a very long time > to brute force anything (and thats assuming there is no logging).
That doesn't solve the problem, merely slow it down. On the subject of rpc.pwdauthd (Solaris' daemon): it makes for one heck of a bottleneck on a mail server responding to 10-15 POP3 connections per second - rpc.pwdauthd starts sucking up huge amounts of CPU time, and you start getting lots of RPC timeouts. It also uses STREAMS plus some variant of LOCAL_CREDS to "prove" the daemon is alright. More on this in my next message. --Jeff
