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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: Major bogon in tcp_wrappers port. 
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Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 20:16:55 +0200
From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
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<asbestos>

_*PRETTY_PLEASE*_ cant we bring this into the "core" FreeBSD?

With all the squeling about security, IMHO it is silly not to.

</asbestos>

M

"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
> Yes, I read the man pages for tcpd and for hosts_access(5) and pretty
> much everything I could get my hands on, and no matter what I put in
> for my /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files, it *always* allowed
> the connection in.  After tearing out a little hair, it finally
> occurred to me that maybe this had been "localized" as well and that
> the files actually lived in /usr/local/etc.  Bingo.  That was it.
> 
> The bogon is that this information was never patched into the man
> pages, so the new tcp_wrappers user is given completely bogus
> information and sent to the wrong place.
> 
> As per proper ports etiquette, I'm sending this to the maintainer but
> will also be happy to fix this myself if Torsten is unable to do so
> for some reason.  I was actually pretty shocked that this has been
> misdocumented for so long. :-)
> 
> 					Jordan
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