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Date:      Thu, 15 Oct 1998 11:14:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
To:        Chad Dubuque <freebsdstable@rrnet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tcp-wrappers (was Re: firewalling)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810151113230.1902-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199810151712.MAA06112@rrnet.com>

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On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Chad Dubuque wrote:

> Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > Not every service you run runs from inetd, which is the easiest thing to
> > transfer to TCP wrappers.
> > 
> > Things like web servers, ssh, irc servers, named, SQL databases, smbd, and
> > so forth aren't necessarily easy to convert to TCP wrappers.
> [...]
> 
> ssh does (relatively) easily convert to TCP Wrappers, as do the latest
> Sendmails. While not everything works with TCP Wrappers, I'd encourage
> anyone thinking of writing a TCP-daemon to encorporate them.

In general, anything you have source to can be converted to use tcp
wrappers in five minutes or less.



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