[asterisk-dev] libwrap

Kevin P. Fleming kpfleming at digium.com
Tue Aug 8 13:45:56 MST 2006


----- Peter Beckman <beckman at purplecow.com> wrote:
>   AFAIK Yes, based on the assumption that TFTP is UDP-based, and this
> email
>   seems to confirm that libwrap access control via hosts.allow for
> TFTP
>   (which uses UDP) is supported by libwrap:
>         http://www.xinetd.org/pipermail/xinetd/2003-June/000145.html

Generally speaking many people are happier using firewalling facilities provided by their kernels, rather than building this functionality into userspace applications. Personally I -never- use libwrap facilities in any daemons I run :-)

-- 
Kevin P. Fleming
Senior Software Engineer
Digium, Inc.




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