From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 15 11:18:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA04022 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 11:18:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from deathbed.znep.com ([207.218.118.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA04015 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 11:18:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcs@znep.com) Received: from localhost (marcs@localhost) by deathbed.znep.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA05782; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 11:14:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcs@znep.com) X-Authentication-Warning: deathbed.znep.com: marcs owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 11:14:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Marc Slemko X-Sender: marcs@localhost To: Chad Dubuque cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tcp-wrappers (was Re: firewalling) In-Reply-To: <199810151712.MAA06112@rrnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Chad Dubuque wrote: > Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > [...] > > Not every service you run runs from inetd, which is the easiest thing to > > transfer to TCP wrappers. > > > > Things like web servers, ssh, irc servers, named, SQL databases, smbd, and > > so forth aren't necessarily easy to convert to TCP wrappers. > [...] > > ssh does (relatively) easily convert to TCP Wrappers, as do the latest > Sendmails. While not everything works with TCP Wrappers, I'd encourage > anyone thinking of writing a TCP-daemon to encorporate them. In general, anything you have source to can be converted to use tcp wrappers in five minutes or less. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message