Hi,
>>>>> On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 09:32:58 -0700
>>>>> OpenMacNews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
openmacnews> QUESTION: why is a hosts.allow entry required in the 1st
openmacnews> place for lmtpunix transport over a UNIXsocket?
I don't know about MacOS X, but there was similar bug in FreeBSD. So,
our port still applies following patch to avoid the bug in old version
of FreeBSD:
Index: master/service-thread.c
diff -u master/service-thread.c.orig master/service-thread.c
--- master/service-thread.c.orig Wed Jan 22 22:52:36 2003
+++ master/service-thread.c Wed Jan 22 23:09:52 2003
@@ -99,6 +99,9 @@
struct sockaddr_storage sin;
socklen_t len = sizeof(sin);
+ /* XXX: old FreeBSD didn't fill sockaddr correctly against AF_UNIX */
+ sin.ss_family = AF_UNIX;
+
/* is this a connection from the local host? */
if (getpeername(fd, (struct sockaddr *) &sin, &len) == 0) {
if (((struct sockaddr *)&sin)->sa_family == AF_UNIX) {
openmacnews> and, why "0.0.0.0" for localhost, rather than 127.0.0.1
openmacnews> or 'localhost' in hosts.allow?
UNIX domain socket is not localhost. Perhaps, getpeername() doesn't
fill sockaddr against UNIX domain socket. So, it matches with
0.0.0.0.
Sincerely,
--
Hajimu UMEMOTO @ Internet Mutual Aid Society Yokohama, Japan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED],jp.}FreeBSD.org
http://www.imasy.org/~ume/
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