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Date:      Thu, 1 Jul 1999 19:42:11 +0200
From:      "Roger Rabbit" <ros@intrafish.no>
To:        "David Pick" <D.M.Pick@qmw.ac.uk>
Cc:        <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   SV: tcp wrappers 
Message-ID:  <00c801bec3e9$0cbd9560$2790ccc3@intrafish.no>
References:  <E10zkhZ-0006Qf-00@xi.css.qmw.ac.uk>

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Thnx a lot for the help guys.

I got my hands on the tcpserver source and compiled it (I only had the =
precompiled package and it was a.out) ... works like a
dream so tcp wrappers are of no interest anymore. :)

-Roger

----- Original Message -----=20
From: David Pick <D.M.Pick@qmw.ac.uk>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: tcp wrappers=20


>=20
> > > But I can't see tcpd anywhere, only tcpdcheck and so on. Why is =
this ?
> >=20
> > If you look at the inetd manpage, you'll see that it supports =
builtin
> > wrapping. You don't need tcpd.
>=20
> To be explicit - inetd is linked with the libwrap library so it's
> unnecessary to activate a separate program with the extra overheads
> that involves.
>=20
> > > What if I want to set up different access rules based on the =
protocol in =3D
> > > use, not the program ?
> >=20
> > That's a limitation of hosts.allow. Short of creating a copy of the
> > daemon binary with a new name, you can't do what you want to with =
inetd
> > and TCP Wrappers.
>=20
> Actually, a separate copy is not necessary; a hard (or soft) link
> is sufficient to make the wrappers see a new name so different rules
> can be used.
>=20
> --=20
> David Pick
>=20
>=20
>=20
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