On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:58:26PM +0100, Gavin Hamill wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Benj wrote: > > > I run top, and see this process: > > 7705 0.0 % -discard [164.138.*.*] > > > > What is this process -discard ?? The IP (from which i've hidden the last two > > numbers) is totally unknown, its not my servers's or mine. > > discard is a TCP service provided by inetd itself which just ignores any > input fed to it. That IP is connecting to your machine and spewing data > into inetd. It's not harming your machine, but it will be wasting > bandwidth. > > > Do you think I should kill it ? > > More than that, I'd disable discard, and it's friends daytime, echo, and > chargen in /etc/inetd.conf. then '/etc/init.d/inetd restart'
okay, now for the Big Question -- "why"? i.e. is there a danger in "offering" the 'daytime','echo', etc services from xinetd? -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP: Looking to use your Debian machine as a FIREWALL? No problem! Try "apt-get install ipmasq"... After you've got your /etc/network/interfaces file set up properly, ipmasq will save you lots of work, setting up firewall and routing tables automatically. ...from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
