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From: Craig Johnston <caj@praline.no.neosoft.com>
To: Bradley Dunn <bradley@dunn.org>
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Subject: Re: tcpserver?
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On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Bradley Dunn wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone have any experiences with tcpserver that he/she would care to
> share? I am specifically interested in using it as a replacement for
> inetd. More info at:
> ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/ucspi-tcp.html
> 
> Bradley
> 

Not much to say -- it works fine for me.  The environment variables
are quite nice.  (It sets TCPREMOTEIP, TCPREMOTEHOST, TCPREMOTEPORT,
and TCPREMOTEINFO to the remote ip, remote hostname returned by
a reverse lookup on the ip, the remote port, and the remote ident
info.)  If you want tcp-wrappers type functionality, you'll need
to run it with tcpcontrol, also by djb.  I use it to start qmail-smtpd
and qpopper.

Craig A. Johnston, Applications Engineer, NeoSoft, Inc.
caj@neosoft.com  phone:(504)539 9235  fax:(504)539 9236