Bug 25050

Summary: inetd UDP echo service echos only 8K
Product: Base System Reporter: larse <larse>
Component: miscAssignee: dwmalone
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 4.2-RELEASE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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Description larse 2001-02-13 02:30:01 UTC 
The built-in echo service of inetd only echoes UDP packets up to 8K
in length. This is not really in conformance with RFC862, which
specifies no such length limit (ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc862.txt):

UDP Based Echo Service

   Another echo service is defined as a datagram based application on
   UDP.  A server listens for UDP datagrams on UDP port 7.  When a
   datagram is received, the data from it is sent back in an answering
   datagram.
Comment 1 dwmalone freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-02-13 11:34:56 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->dwmalone

I'll have a look at this.
Comment 2 larse 2001-02-13 17:40:25 UTC 
Please let me clarify "only echoes UDP packets up to 8K in length" -
slopppy description on my part. What I meant was: only echos a maximum of
8K of data for each packet.
-- 
Lars Eggert <larse@isi.edu>                 Information Sciences Institute
http://www.isi.edu/larse/                University of Southern California
Comment 3 dwmalone freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-07-17 11:47:34 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Issue addressed in -current and -stable. May need further thought in the 
furture though.