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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 20:05:10 +0200
From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>
To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: inetd+libwrap and wrapping UDP services
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On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 08:01:55PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> The patches on PR 12097 that deal with fixing inetd's handling of
> tcp_wrapper support do _not_ enable wrapping of UDP services. David
> Malone and I are busy working on a patch for doing so, but I have a
> question that I probably should have asked when we started.
> 
> Is there any point in wrapping UDP services (identified as "dgram udp"
> services in inetd.conf)? Since they're all single-threaded, using the
> wait option, any successful connection opens up a rolling period during
> which any further connections will not be wrapped (hence the word
> rolling).
> 

And when you fix that, the wrapper stuff gets invoked for every packet...

-Guido


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