> >    Does anyone know how to configure telnetd and/or ftpd to listen only on
> > a specific interface on a machine with multiple interfaces? I want to be
> > able to ftp/telnet into IP address 'foo' but not into address 'baz' (both
> > on the same RedHat 5.0 box).
> 
> I did this sort of thing on my system by hacking inetd to allow a line to
> start with "host:service" instead of just service.
> 
> I forwarded my patches to the maintainer of inetd, but they never got
> merged in.  Every time I upgrade to a new Red Hat release, I have to
> rebuild netkit-base (previously NetKit-B).

They never got included for a good reason.  This functionality is already
available by using ipfwadm to block access to ports to wish to restrict.

Dave



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