Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 15:31:10 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Question re. Inetd, security & Virtual Hosts Message-ID: <355B002E.4315383F@tdx.co.uk>
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Does anyone know of any problems with running inetd just for the primary interface on a FreeBSD system? My main concern was security (I don't really want telnetd listening on every IP interface the box has), so I now run: inetd -l -a primary.ip.address inetd -l -a secondary.ip.address And I don't run it for the other 8 IP addresses my system has... The only thing I've noticed is that inetd will also bind services to the 127.0.0.1 (loopback) address - but using the above it doesn't... Does this mean I should also do: inetd -l -a 127.0.0.1 ? Any comments on this like 'you must be mad' are welcome... ;-) On some servers I'd imagine it might save a lot of network sockets (e.g. 200 virtual servers would normally run 200 listeners for telnetd, pop3 etc. ;-) Regards, Karl Pielorz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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