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Date:      Mon, 28 Jun 1999 02:39:25 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org>
To:        David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
Cc:        Aaron Smith <aaron-fbsd@mutex.org>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, Keith Stevenson <k.stevenson@louisville.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Inetd and wrapping.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906280237180.10615-100000@penelope.skunk.org>
In-Reply-To: <19990625201201.A10893@boole.maths.tcd.ie>

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On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, David Malone wrote:

> Some people think that doing the hosts.allow lookup is too expensive
> for some services but not others. (It requires opening /etc/hosts.allow,
> reading it in line by line and possibly doing DNS lookups).

I would hope that anyone concerned about speed would be writing tcp-wrappers
rules with numbers, not names.

--
 Ben

UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group
StarMedia Network, Inc.



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