From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2smp i686; Nav) Description of problem: Defaults (10 connections per second) not adequate for tftpd (for me at least). Real problem, however is that services that trigger the looping protection are shut down permanently --- thus a DOS. Suggest xinetd.conf say "cps = 10 5" so that looping protestion is temporary. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. edit /etc/xinetd.d/tftp to enable 2. boot many X terminals at once 3. suspect problem is general, so any coordinated activity will do. Telnet? Actual Results: tftpd stops serving, see /var/log/messages -- tftp service was deactivated because of looping tftpd service outage is permanent. Additional info: recommend make these service outages temporary through use of cps with TWO parameters, such as "cps = 10 10"
It's not specified at all right now... I'm not sure whether we want to change this or not. Of course, it's always possible for the admin to do it if it is wanted.
Added in 2.3.0-7 and above (higher threshold, though)