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Date:      Sat, 26 Dec 1998 08:57:17 -0800 (PST)
From:      Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>
To:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Do I really need inetd?
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.96.981226084709.11020F-100000@roble3.roble.com>

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"Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.Org> wrote:
>If you have IP aliases/addresses, I recommend you use the -a option such
>that inetd only listens on address you expect the services to be obtained
>under.
>	inetd -a 127.0.0.1 /etc/inetd-local.conf
>	...

The -a parameter is a great feature of FreeBSD inetd.  I hope future
versions will accept multiple IP addresses.  Under 2.2.7, if you need
to run an ftpd on say 12 specific IPs, you'll need to run 12 inetds.
It would be cleaner if either one -a understood multiple IPs:

	inetd /etc/inetd.conf.ftp -a 192.168.1.10 192.168.1.11 [...]

or if inetd understood multiple -a flags:

	inetd /etc/inetd.conf.ftp -a 192.168.1.10 -a 192.168.1.11 [...]

--
Roger Marquis
Roble Systems Consulting
http://www.roble.com/


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