From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu May 28 06:52:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA17929 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Thu, 28 May 1998 06:52:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gw.jmrodgers.com (gw.jmrodgers.com [205.247.224.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA17912 for ; Thu, 28 May 1998 06:52:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from meuston@jmrodgers.com) Received: from max.jmrodgers.com (max.jmrodgers.com [205.247.224.209]) by gw.jmrodgers.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA09761; Thu, 28 May 1998 09:50:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from meuston@jmrodgers.com) Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Thu, 28 May 1998 09:50:41 -0400 Message-ID: <01BD8A1E.135F3320.meuston@jmrodgers.com> From: Max Euston To: "'Niall Smart'" , "freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: kern/6774: bind(3)/libc improvement Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 09:50:39 -0400 Organization: J.M. Rodgers Co., Inc. X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday, May 28, 1998 7:50 AM, Niall Smart [SMTP:njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk] wrote: > On May 27, 5:39pm, Leo Bicknell wrote: [snip] > > This would allow things like an outbound telnet connection > > from a particular address forced by the user, or having a program like > > inetd listen only to some addresses without chaning the code of these > > user applications. > > Modifying inetd so it only binds to specific interfaces is probably > a good idea. I haven't used it, but man inetd says: -a Specify a specific IP address to bind to. Max --- Max Euston To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message