On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Joop Boonen wrote:
service. So if you set-up telnet or pop3 you can restrict the addresses that can use it. This is not possible with inetd that you have to use a portwrapper or a firewall to accomplish this. I meant client addresses.
Are you sure? I read something else a while ago on this list. You should do perhaps a "man inetd"...
What i see in man inetd is that you can specify a local address, so if an interface ahs more than one ip address , or when you have multiple interfaces. But every person can still use the specified service when it's connected to the right ip address/port. Correct me when i'm wrong.
I don't know, I've never read the manual of inetd... But it seems, that I didn't understand that *major advantage*. Is it just the functionality of tcpd? Peter -- Peter Münster http://notrix.net/pm-vcard