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Date:      Thu, 28 May 1998 16:58:25 +0100
From:      njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart)
To:        Max Euston <meuston@jmrodgers.com>, "'Niall Smart'" <njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk>, "freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: kern/6774: bind(3)/libc improvement
Message-ID:  <E0yf54U-0002FT-00@oak66.doc.ic.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: Max Euston <meuston@jmrodgers.com> "RE: kern/6774: bind(3)/libc improvement" (May 28,  9:50am)

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On May 28,  9:50am, Max Euston wrote:
} Subject: RE: kern/6774: bind(3)/libc improvement
> On Thursday, May 28, 1998 7:50 AM, Niall Smart [SMTP:njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk] wrote:
> >  On May 27,  5:39pm, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> [snip] 
> >  > 	This would allow things like an outbound telnet connection
> >  > from a particular address forced by the user, or having a program like
> >  > inetd listen only to some addresses without chaning the code of these
> >  > user applications.
> >  
> >  Modifying inetd so it only binds to specific interfaces is probably
> >  a good idea.
> 
> I haven't used it, but man inetd says:
> 
>      -a      Specify a specific IP address to bind to.

Hrm, wasn't aware of that, I think a better way is to specify for each
service which addresses it should listen on.  Perhaps you could do
this using multiple inetd's and configuration files, but thats messy.
Then again, changing inetd.conf's syntax isn't exactly desirable either,
probably.

Niall

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