On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Peter Samuel wrote:

>It has a rate limiting "feature" whereby it will stop servicing a port
>for 10 MINUTES if it thinks the rate of incoming connections is too
>high (I have flat lined a remote inetd with qmail-remote from a 14k4
>modem). tcpserver doesn't care about rate, it just cares about
>simultaneous connections.
>Regards
>Peter
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>Peter Samuel                                [EMAIL PROTECTED]

While i agree with Peter that tcpserver is superior, i dont want people
getting the wrong idea of inetd.

inetd by default has the above behaviour, but can be overridden in the
configuration file to accept any number of connections.


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