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

[Miloslav Trmač]

2014-03-22 5:20 GMT+01:00 Miloslav Trmač <mitr at volny.cz>:

> I'm participating in this discussion because, as a general rule, I assume
> most administrators configuring security, and most users in general, *aren't
> idiots*.  So, the fairly large number of assumed non-idiots using this
> functionality suggests, as a first approximation to truth, that it is
> useful, and it's the few of us that discuss removal of the feature that are
> wrong about the consequences of our actions.
>

... and this equally applies to all the programmers who wrote servers that
don't call tcp_wrappers but provide similar DNS-based policy mechanisms.
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