From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 28 10:59:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [209.192.237.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33B0814FF1 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:59:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pir@pir.net) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 119Xbj-000656-00 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tcpd, inetd, and hosts.[allow|deny] Message-ID: <19990728133511.F20777@pir.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <19990728200259.A60026@dblab.ece.ntua.gr> <19990728202954.A75107@dblab.ece.ntua.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990728202954.A75107@dblab.ece.ntua.gr>; from Yiorgos Adamopoulos on Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 08:29:54PM +0300 X-fish: < Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yiorgos Adamopoulos probably said: > Now this is where I disagree. The default /etc/hosts.allow allows > every connection. Which is OK, since if you cut-n-paste your old > inetd.conf tcpd wrapped lines, inetd will execute tcpd, who (tcpd) > will check /usr/local/etc/hosts.{allow,deny} which will do what the > administrator expects. Not always true. tcpd is linked dynamicly with libwrap, it depends which libwrap.so is first in the linker's search. When I went to 3.2 my older tcpd started using /etc/hosts.*. P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@shore.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message