Previously Guido Guenther wrote: > According to upstream we can't hope that he will put portsentry under a > license which debian considers as free in the near future so a free > reimplementation would be great. Portsentry is a nice peace of software > but it's missing some crucial features such as a pid file or more > flexible syntax in the hosts.ignore file (such as ignore > host:port1,port2). Also features like much more flexible configuration of when something should be blocked, how long something should be blocked, interfaces and/or addresses to listen on, etc. Lots of good things can be added. If you start with something like ippl as a base it shouldn't even be extremely hard to do. Wichert. -- ________________________________________________________________ / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | wichert@liacs.nl http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
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