rate limiting sshd connections ?

[Patrick Proniewski]

On 11 mai 2004, at 22:27, Roger Marquis wrote:

> "slimmy baddog" wrote:
>> I would strognly suggest that you dont use inetd for running services 
>> but
>> running all your services as daemons wich is much faster for the 
>> system
>> and safer.
>
> That used to be the recommendation, back when 50MHz CPUs were the
> norm.  With 1 GHz and faster CPUs the difference between sshd and
> inetd starting a child sshd is in the millisecond range i.e, impossible
> to distinguish by look and feel.


in fact, I've seen an Apple XServe (two G4 1GHz processors) running 
MacOS
X Server beeing DOSed by a remote Nagios probe testing it's sshd once 
per
minute. On OSX, sshd runs from xinetd. The box used to need hard reboot 
once
a day until the problem was identified and the nagios probe was 
disabled.

my 2 cents.

patpro
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