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



On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 06:22:45PM -0700, Adam McKenna wrote:
> > Maybe TCP-wrappers will become vulnerable to some attack. Then your IP-based
> > access lists are moot.
> 
> TCP wrappers is vulernable to attacks.  I don't utilize it at all, because I
> consider it to be an insecure piece of shit.  Neither do I utilize Sendmail, 
> BIND, inetd, wu-ftpd, or other security disasters.  This thread is about
> the Debian default configuration of tcpd, which is currently broken.

Then why the bloody hell do you even care?

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Daniel Stone
Linux Kernel Developer
daniel@kabuki.openfridge.net

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