Re: ALL: PARANOID from /etc/hosts.deny Should be Commented by default

To: Erik Hollensbe <erik@powells.com>
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: ALL: PARANOID from /etc/hosts.deny Should be Commented by default
From: Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 16:38:00 -0400
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Erik Hollensbe <erik@powells.com> writes:

> i mean, to be frank, what modern useful unix services run under
> inetd that would be 'expected' on a debian system anyways? 

exim, for smtp connections.  And everyone has to have smtp
connections if they use fetchmail[1], which means that everyone now
needs firewall rules on their workstations....

Footnotes: 
[1]  Thanks, ESR.

-- 
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - In a variety of flavors!
In every non-trivial program there is at least one bug.

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