From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Sep 12 16:30:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA18070 for ports-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 16:30:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.210.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA18057; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 16:30:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0x9f5X-0002Ha-00; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 16:25:23 -0700 Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 16:25:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom To: Curt Sampson cc: Torsten Blum , Andreas Klemm , mark@grondar.za, ports@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Major bogon in tcp_wrappers port. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Curt Sampson wrote: > On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Torsten Blum wrote: > > > Andreas, have you _ever_ configured tcpd ? tcpd is not a standalone daemon. > > To activate it, you have to modify inetd.conf. > > It depends on the inetd.conf. NetBSD's inetd uses libwrap directly, > so no modification is necessary. Seems rather dubious. The libwrap calls parse the control files for every call. Hopefuly, it is called after the fork() so that DNS lookups don't block inetd. > > If a tool highly depends on the system and needs a rebuild of several tools > > to take advantage of it, I'll probably suggest to add it to the base system. > > Well, sendmail is one program needs to be recompiled to use libwrap. Or you could just use rulesets. You can't get too fine grained, but who needs that? > cjs > > Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ > Internet Portal Services, Inc. Through infinite myst, software reverberates > Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 In code possess'd of invisible folly. > > > Tom