Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 14:38:02 -0800 (PST) From: Jim Pazarena <paz@ccstores.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: inetd with wrappers built-in Message-ID: <10001241438.aa28055@ccstores.com>
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>Subject: Re: inetd with wrappers built-in
>Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 21:01:38 +0000
>From: George Cox <gjvc@extremis.demon.co.uk>
>On 24/01 10:02, Jim Pazarena wrote:
>> Can anyone confirm yay/nay if the wrappers which is built-in
>> to the inetd on 3.4 has the blacklist patch compiled into it?
>You sound like you mean the RBL "Real-time blackhole list" spam filter.
>Any filtering inetd does is based on the IP address of the connecting host.
>It is up to an application level process to filter content.
No. Not the RBL. tcp-wrappers has a patch which when applied permits
you to reference a FILE NAME in place of an machine address/name.
Therefore in a hosts.deny you can enter (for example)
pop : /etc/hosts.fylname : DENY
and the file "/etc/hosts.fylname" will be treated as a continuous list
of IP's.
This makes adding an IP to the wrappers rejection list _very_ easy.
FreeBSD 3.3 still did not have this wrappers patch applied, and therefore
I could not utilize this feature of wrappers.
--
Jim Pazarena mailto:paz@ccstores.com
http://www.qcislands.net/paz
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