From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu May 28 09:11:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA03797 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Thu, 28 May 1998 09:11:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gw.jmrodgers.com (gw.jmrodgers.com [205.247.224.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA03778 for ; Thu, 28 May 1998 09:11:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from meuston@jmrodgers.com) Received: from max.jmrodgers.com (max.jmrodgers.com [205.247.224.209]) by gw.jmrodgers.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA13639; Thu, 28 May 1998 12:09:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from meuston@jmrodgers.com) Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Thu, 28 May 1998 12:09:38 -0400 Message-ID: <01BD8A31.7C5640E0.meuston@jmrodgers.com> From: Max Euston To: "'Niall Smart'" , "freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: kern/6774: bind(3)/libc improvement Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 12:09:36 -0400 Organization: J.M. Rodgers Co., Inc. X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 --- Max Euston To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message