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Date:      Fri, 12 Sep 1997 16:25:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom <tom@sdf.com>
To:        Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
Cc:        Torsten Blum <torstenb@onizuka.tb.9715.org>, Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>, mark@grondar.za, ports@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Major bogon in tcp_wrappers port.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970912162102.8647A-100000@misery.sdf.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970912141831.2953Q-100000@cynic.portal.ca>

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On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Curt Sampson wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Torsten Blum wrote:
> 
> > Andreas, have you _ever_ configured tcpd ? tcpd is not a standalone daemon.
> > To activate it, you have to modify inetd.conf. 
> 
> It depends on the inetd.conf. NetBSD's inetd uses libwrap directly,
> so no modification is necessary.

  Seems rather dubious.  The libwrap calls parse the control files for
every call.  Hopefuly, it is called after the fork() so that DNS lookups
don't block inetd.

> > If a tool highly depends on the system and needs a rebuild of several tools
> > to take advantage of it, I'll probably suggest to add it to the base system.
> 
> Well, sendmail is one program needs to be recompiled to use libwrap.

  Or you could just use rulesets.  You can't get too fine grained, but who
needs that?

> cjs
> 
> Curt Sampson    cjs@portal.ca	   Info at http://www.portal.ca/
> Internet Portal Services, Inc.	   Through infinite myst, software reverberates
> Vancouver, BC  (604) 257-9400	   In code possess'd of invisible folly.
> 
> 
> 

Tom




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