Subject: Re: hosts.deny has no effect for ntalkd
To: Pavel Cahyna <pcah8322@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-net
Date: 11/07/2002 10:49:17
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On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 09:18:03AM +0100, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
> >=20
> > Well, not so much a bug as just an "incomplete" feature....
> >=20
> > Indeed the problem is because ntalk is a UDP service.
> >=20
> > The integrated TCP Wrappers support in inetd is only for TCP services
> > (and only for "external" TCP services too unless you recompile inetd
> > with -DLIBWRAP_INTERNAL).  UDP services are not protected (or logged
> > with '-l').  "wait" services aren't even wrapped as far as I can tell.
> >=20
>=20
> Thanks for the clarification. Shouldn't be tcpd provided until this gets
> implemented in inetd? Or at least, please mention this in inetd(8) and
> hosts_access(5). Should I send a PR about documentation bug?

Yes.
	-is

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