From owner-freebsd-security Sun Aug 16 01:23:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA13537 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 01:23:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from banshee.cs.uow.edu.au (banshee.cs.uow.edu.au [130.130.188.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA13532 for ; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 01:23:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ncb05@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au) Received: (from ncb05@localhost) by banshee.cs.uow.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id SAA16340; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 18:22:57 +1000 (EST) Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 18:22:57 +1000 (EST) From: Nicholas Charles Brawn X-Sender: ncb05@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au To: Darren Reed cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: inetd enhancements (fwd) In-Reply-To: <199808160440.VAA29668@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Darren Reed wrote: > > allowing different programs to bind to different IP addresses > (on a multi-ip# box) is something inetd does not do and can't > handle with packet filters and requires tcpd/fwtk type solution. > > however, I think that rather hacking that functionality into > inetd, look at xinetd (which already has numerous additions) > and leave inetd to be more standard... > > However, as others have pointed out before, there is a certain piece of mind gained when dealing with nice, neat, smaller programs. There are fewer places for things to go wrong: root@devel:/tmp/xinetd-2.2.1/xinetd# wc -l *.c |grep total 12104 total root@devel:/tmp/xinetd-2.2.1/xinetd# cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/inetd/ root@devel:/usr/src/usr.sbin/inetd# wc -l *.c |grep total 1883 total root@devel:/usr/src/usr.sbin/inetd# In this case, I believe a patch that augments inetd's functionality should be incorporated, so long as it is audited first. :) Nick -- Email: ncb05@uow.edu.au - http://rabble.uow.edu.au/~nick Key fingerprint = DE 30 33 D3 16 91 C8 8D A7 F8 70 03 B7 77 1A 2A "When in doubt, ask someone wiser than yourself..." -unknown To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message