(Fwd) Found denial of service in NRPE for Solaris

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

Greg Panula wrote:
> Isn't inetd a "super server"?  Meaning it listens on the port, accepts
> in the inbound connection and then spawns the service and passes the
> connection off to freshly spawned the service/daemon.
> 
> The test he ran above is a little mis-leading... it could be 
> that inetd
> is dying and therefore port 5666 is longer listening.

Agreed.  It could be the simple case that inetd has decided
to disable the service temporarily because it's respawning too
quickly.

> I would suggest running the above test against NRPE while it 
> is running
> in daemon mode, not under inetd as he did.

Agreed.  Might also be interesting to see what happens to NRPE
in a standalone vs. xinetd comparison, just for the sake of
completeness.

> Just my two bits,
>   greg

jc


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