Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 09:02:28 +1000 (EST) From: Q <q@fan.net.au> To: Dave Truesdell <dtruesdell@att.com> Cc: Willow <willow@tds.edu>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tcpd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9811130842290.20213-100000@gromit.fan.net.au> In-Reply-To: <1213.910904943@localhost>
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On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Dave Truesdell wrote:
> It looks like you've overdone things. Tcp Wrappers only work for TCP
> services, they don't work for UDP or RPC based services. Also,
Tcpd works for UDP services just fine. Read the doco. And there is
rpcbind/portmap available for RPC services (Also by Wietse Venema).
> wrapping identd is probably a bad idea as tcpd may need to query it,
> is the rules require the information.
Wrapping identd is fine provided you don't put a "user@host" rule in the
identd access control list. You would probably want to disable -DPARANOID
though if your wrapping identd, just to be friendly to people with broken
DNS entries.
Seeya...Q
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