On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 09:21:56AM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hello, > > I found out that rlinetd seems like a great replacement for inetd, because > it lets you choose which services may be available for the outside world > and which only for the inner network. So, standard services like echo, > daytime, chargen, ftp, etc. are only available for the LAN, while it is > not possible to connect to these ports from the internet. > > But, how secure is this? Is it really what it seems? first you should ask yourself why you even need echo, daytime, discard, chargen and such. i don't think ive ever found anyone who actually did need all of those. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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