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Date:      Thu, 28 May 1998 12:09:36 -0400
From:      Max Euston <meuston@jmrodgers.com>
To:        "'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:  <01BD8A31.7C5640E0.meuston@jmrodgers.com>

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On Thursday, May 28, 1998 11:58 AM, Niall Smart [SMTP:njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk] 
wrote:
> On May 28,  9:50am, Max Euston wrote:
[snip]
> > 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.

I agree, multiple inetd & inetd.conf files could be messy, but I wanted to 
do this on a "gateway" machine to allow only certain services on certain 
interfaces (I currently use ipfw, but the rules can get to be a little 
complex).  If I find any elegant solutions, I will let you know.

Max
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Max Euston <meuston@jmrodgers.com>


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