Subject: Re: libwrap change for IPv6
To: None <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
List: tech-net
Date: 08/11/1999 10:53:49
> I've made a patch for IPv6 support in libwrap. This is based on
> NetBSD 1.4 code (hence tcp_wrapper 7.4), and should be easily applied
> to NetBSD-current code. This involves following changes:
just out of curiosity...why are we only using version 7.4? did the
"licence" change?
> There are other patch available on the net but they change separator
> from colon to pipe sign, so it makes /etc/hosts.allow incompatible
> with previous installations. I thought we should not impact
> compatibility with other systems so I used square brackets.
would it not be better to remain the same as the world? i, for one,
have enough trouble remembering under what context i should use
/bitcount or /dotted.mask or &dotted.mask or /inverse.dotted.mask in
various places for specifying a range of addresses. this will be one
more "thing" that's just different, and this would also make the
hosts.allow files non-portable.
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