Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 00:46:32 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Inetd and a service listening only on localhost Message-ID: <427AB058.5080906@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <427AADA0.6060701@orchid.homeunix.org> References: <427AADA0.6060701@orchid.homeunix.org>
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Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: >Is possible to run a service listening only on localhost with inetd? > How to configure inetd in such case (an entry in /etc/hosts.allow?) >or should I disable such configuration? > > You can (and probably should) do that but why not just block the incoming connections with a firewall? Hosts.allow would just be there for backup. --Alex
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