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Re: Howto make exim not listen on port inet 25



On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 05:44:36PM +0100, Terry Boon wrote:
> 
> > PS: Is there any inetd replacement which can listen selectively on the
> > various interfaces?  Maybe this could be a solution for having both exim
> > and leafnode not listening on the inet ports for home users, what do you
> > think??? 
> 
> There is tcpserver, which I think does this.
> 
[SNIP]
> 
> (You actually specify the IP address at which you want to listen
> rather than the interface name, but in the scenario you describe I
> think that this should suffice.)

xinetd has a "bind" option that does the same thing. I think one of the
others (rlinetd or g2s) has a similar feature as well, but i don't
recall.

Why don't any of these tools allow an interface name, e.g. eth0?


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