From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 2 01:46:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93CC037B401 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 01:46:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from amour.ath.cx (p213.54.243.32.tisdip.tiscali.de [213.54.243.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3999C43F75 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 01:46:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from amour@amour.ath.cx) Received: (qmail 24565 invoked by uid 1001); 2 Jun 2003 08:46:25 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Jun 2003 08:46:25 -0000 Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 10:46:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Alexander To: Matthew Seaman In-Reply-To: <20030602072120.GB23430@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Message-ID: <20030602104323.M24130-100000@amour.ath.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changes to hosts.allow do no affect to inetd daemons some times X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 08:46:28 -0000 So what you say is that if I had opened identd socket for example then updating /etc/hosts.allow and changing rules for ftpd won't take affect on ftpd after new connection ? (assuming that noone is using my ftpd at all) Thanks On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 05:26:15AM +0200, Alexander wrote: > > Hello ! > > > > Sometimes when I change my /etc/hosts.allow and kill and start again > > inetd, there is no difference. It's like I haven't edited > > /etc/hosts.allow. If I continue making changes and stop/start inetd there > > are no affections to the inetd daemons, they allow or deny as > > /etc/hosts.allow isn't modified since inetd was first started after the > > system bootstrapped. > > So what I do now is edit /etc/hosts.allow and then reboot. (Pretty ugly) > > But I noticed that this happens only to the /etc/inetd.conf daemons. > > Stand alone daemons like sshd haven't got such problem the changes occur > > immediately. > > You don't need to restart inetd(8) when you edit /etc/hosts.allow. > TCP wrappers will immediately pick up any changes to that file and > apply them to all subsequent processes connecting to a wrapped > service. > > You are probably seeing the effect of persistent connections: either > connections that are still ongoing or processes spawned by inetd > marked as 'wait', which take over the socket and can accept new > connections if they happen to be running already. Since the TCP > wrappers function is provided by inetd, it can only be applied at the > point that incoming network traffic causes inetd to start up the > wrapped process. Generally processes managed by inetd are fairly > short lived but there are occasional exceptions: nmbd from the samba > suite always seems to start up one time and then run continuously for > ever after. > > Note that long running services with the TCP wrappers functionality > compiled in to them (sendmail, sshd etc) will pick up changes to > hosts.allow instantaneously. Of course, samba software is itself > generally linked against TCP wrappers in exactly this manner. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks > Savill Way > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow > Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK >