Re: [Sheflug] inetd

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 07:23:10PM +0100, Will Newton wrote:
> On Wed, 24 May 2000, Matthew John Palmer wrote:
> 
> > Not according to the man page.  No doubt there's a version around somewhere
> > that'll do it, or alternately you could modify inetd to do what you want.
> 
> ICBW, but surely this can be done by setting up inetd to provide all
> services then modifying /etc/hosts.allow to change the access settings, so
> basically you can block nfs from external hosts etc.?

	In the particular case of NFS, you can do that directly on
/etc/exports. Most of the daemons launched by inetd let you have a nice
control of who should do what. However, xinetd might be a better option
if you have more than 3 daemons :)

	Regards,
	José
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José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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