On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 07:45:21PM +0200, eim wrote: > A question about some network services > ====================================== > > Hallo Debian folks, > > By default, on my debian boxes, I disable this network > services which are enabled automaticly during a fresh > Debian stable aka "potato" installtion: > > * daytime > * time > * discard > > All this services are stareted from inet.d / xinet.d > so I can easily disable them via "update-inetd", > so my only question is: > > Why are this services enabled by default and > for 'what' exactly do we need them ?
Well, daytime spits out the time of day, time is for NTP,
and I'm not sure what discard is used for.
I usually turn off inetd completely. It helps makes things
quieter on a nessus scan :)
-Anne
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