From owner-freebsd-security Tue Feb 13 6:33:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EA5837B4EC for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 06:33:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA95543; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 15:32:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: dodi maryanto Cc: Attila Nagy , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Secure Servers (SMTP, POP3, FTP) References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 13 Feb 2001 15:32:57 +0100 In-Reply-To: dodi maryanto's message of "Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:23:13 +0000 (GMT)" Message-ID: Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org dodi maryanto writes: > > Can you show that inetd is significantly larger and/or slower than > > tcp-server? As for ease of configuration, the format of inetd.conf is > > straightforward and well documented. > if you have many rule to set, cdb format is very fast to read. > ( cdb is a standard db file for djb-ware ). yes, it is also easy to > configure even with poor documentation. Reading the rules is something you only do very rarely - on a production machine, you only do it once, at boot. It's just not relevant. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message