Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 01:34:56 +0200 From: Karol Kwiatkowski <freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Inetd and a service listening only on localhost Message-ID: <427AADA0.6060701@orchid.homeunix.org>
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Hello everyone, I'm in the process of learning ports system. I've made some changes to an existing port (in the Makefile and a patch) for my use but thought about mailing them to the port maintainer. So now I need to be more serious ;) The port (popa3d) is a pop3 daemon which can be run from inetd or as standalone. I've made a patch and added a knob to Makefile to make popa3d listen only on localhost (I run it as standalone with stunnel). I've never used inetd and I'm not sure what will happen if a connection is made from outside to a service which is configured to listen only on localhost. Is possible to run a service listening only on localhost with inetd? How to configure inetd in such case (an entry in /etc/hosts.allow?) or should I disable such configuration? Regards, Karol -- Karol Kwiatkowski <freebsd at orchid dot homeunix dot org>
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