Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

Martin Langhoff martin.langhoff at gmail.com
Fri Mar 21 00:05:46 UTC 2014


On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de>wrote:
>
>> A firewall has mechanisms to filter for all domains, however only
>> covering a smaller number of generic, low-level matches and actions.
>>
>
> From a usability PoV, /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} is good. I wonder if
> teaching firewalld to support some of that functionality would help here.
>

To clarify: what I mean is that firewalld could parse the legacy files,
interpreting the rules that are translatable, failing safely for those that
are are not.

cheers,



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