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Date:      Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:51:27 +1030
From:      Andrew <awd@awdcomp.net>
To:        Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, skx <listy@skxpl.eu.org>
Subject:   Re: Inetd and multiple IP addresses
Message-ID:  <49BA6BE7.9030005@awdcomp.net>
In-Reply-To: <1236920729.4243.2.camel@t60.local.zz>
References:  <200903130338.06099.listy@skxpl.eu.org> <1236920729.4243.2.camel@t60.local.zz>

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Tim Judd wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 03:38 +0100, skx wrote:
>> I have inetd configured to open a listening port for leafnode 
>>  nntp stream tcp nowait news /usr/libexec/tcpd /usr/local/sbin/leafnode
>> but this opens the port on all IP addresses associated with this machine. 
>> I would like to choose only one. 
>>
>> I tried 
>>  192.168.13.2:nntp stream tcp nowait 
>> news /usr/libexec/tcpd /usr/local/sbin/leafnode
>>
>> but it doesn't work
>>
>>  Mar 11 02:59:21 rewers inetd[89528]: 192.168.13.2:nntp/tcp: unknown 
>> service
>>
>> What am I doing wrong? Isn't ip:service_name a correct entry? 
>>
>> FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p1 with custom kernel if that matters. 
>>
>>
> 
> inetd.conf(5)
> 
> see option -a
> 
> put it in your rc.conf, as inetd_flags
> I do this for all my hosts so I have a tighter reign on the problem
> 

True, but it limits inetd to that IP for all services.

There is also have xinetd which allows control per service.
/usr/ports/security/xinetd
Info:   Replacement for inetd with better control and logging


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