Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 16:25:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@sdf.com> To: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca> Cc: Torsten Blum <torstenb@onizuka.tb.9715.org>, Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>, mark@grondar.za, ports@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Major bogon in tcp_wrappers port. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970912162102.8647A-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970912141831.2953Q-100000@cynic.portal.ca>
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On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Curt Sampson wrote: > On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Torsten Blum wrote: > > > Andreas, have you _ever_ configured tcpd ? tcpd is not a standalone daemon. > > To activate it, you have to modify inetd.conf. > > It depends on the inetd.conf. NetBSD's inetd uses libwrap directly, > so no modification is necessary. Seems rather dubious. The libwrap calls parse the control files for every call. Hopefuly, it is called after the fork() so that DNS lookups don't block inetd. > > If a tool highly depends on the system and needs a rebuild of several tools > > to take advantage of it, I'll probably suggest to add it to the base system. > > Well, sendmail is one program needs to be recompiled to use libwrap. Or you could just use rulesets. You can't get too fine grained, but who needs that? > cjs > > Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ > Internet Portal Services, Inc. Through infinite myst, software reverberates > Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 In code possess'd of invisible folly. > > > Tom
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