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Date:      31 May 2005 14:26:23 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-stable-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IP Firewalling by DNS name
Message-ID:  <44ekbnb6b4.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <441x7ns2lq.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
References:  <200505311631.j4VGVo5i027356@lurza.secnetix.de> <441x7ns2lq.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>

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Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-stable-local@be-well.no-ip.com> writes:

> Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> writes:
> 
> > I assume he's not using inetd(8) for ssh (which is not a
> > good ide ain general, and it's not the default anyway).
> > Note that sshd(8) supports hosts_access(3) directly without
> > the help of inetd(8).
> 
> I thought someone had specified inetd, but looking again, that seems
> to have been my own hallucination.  Sorry about that.

I figured out what it was.  Someone had asked why hosts.allow warns
against wrapping sshd.  I remembered that the file comment giving the
warning had originally been added when hosts.allow was an inetd-only
configuration...



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