From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 31 14:26:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mikea.ath.cx (okc-65-26-223-53.mmcable.com [65.26.223.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBC8637B40A for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:26:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikea@mikea.ath.cx) Received: (from mikea@localhost) by mikea.ath.cx (8.11.4/8.11.1) id f6VLQko05207 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:26:46 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mikea) Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:26:46 -0500 From: mikea To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Extra Line in my inetd.conf Message-ID: <20010731162646.A5179@mikea.ath.cx> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from haydenk@nextlevelinternet.com on Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 02:14:11PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 02:14:11PM -0700, Hayden Katzenellenbogen wrote: > I have noticed this line at the bottom of some of my inetd.conf files on a > few of my machines.. it is though not commented out I have commented it out > as well I have no idea what it does... > > any one care to shed some light on this? > > > > #dlip stream tcp nowait root /bin/sh sh -i It appears to be some sort of IP-locking protocol, to judge by the smidgen of info I was able to find from a cursory Google. -- Mike Andrews mikea@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin since 1964 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message