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 Message-ID: <19990615200510.A3803@gvr.org> In-Reply-To: <85735.929469715@axl.noc.iafrica.com>; from Sheldon Hearn on Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 08:01:55PM %2B0200 References: <85735.929469715@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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