From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 6 19:23:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A615616A4C8 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 19:23:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamie@gnulife.org) Received: from floyd.gnulife.org (ns1.gnulife.org [207.191.130.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BAED44654 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 19:01:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jamie@gnulife.org) Received: from floyd.gnulife.org (localhost.gnulife.org [127.0.0.1]) by floyd.gnulife.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kB6IvbJu087614 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 12:57:37 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jamie@gnulife.org) Received: from localhost (jamie@localhost) by floyd.gnulife.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) with ESMTP id kB6Iva0V087611 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 12:57:37 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jamie@gnulife.org) X-Authentication-Warning: floyd.gnulife.org: jamie owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 12:57:36 -0600 (CST) From: Jamie To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20061206125424.L87575@floyd.gnulife.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Any advantages xinetd has over inetd anymore? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:23:12 -0000 I was considering installing xinetd on my FreeBSD server, but reading the man page for inetd, I see the traditional inetd offers all kinds of rate limiting by service, ip, etc, that I was going to upgrade to xinetd for. Many people I've talked to claim xinetd is so superior in function, but to me it appears that inetd will do pretty much everything that xinetd will do now. Or, am I missing something? - Jamie The Moon is Waning Gibbous (97% of Full)