On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 08:37:11PM -0500, garaged wrote: > tcpwrappers is, IMO, a quite deprecated tool, firewalls are reliable > and more adequate this days.
I'm going by the usual security advice to use multiple layers of security. > > To answer your question, if apache is started by xinetd, host.* files > are relevant, most distributions now dont bind apache to xinetd, i'm > not even sure if it's convenient, I would think that it is not because > apache keeps child processes for faster response. I'm on the Debian distribution :) I'm pretty sure Apache runs at startup, not via inetd. I know a number of packages say they are compiled with tcpwrappers. I didn't realize it only worked with inetd; I thought it was more general. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
