flamage between our beloved messrs Hearn and Feldman. Further commits go
through me. I urge the contestants to direct their energies at cleaning
up main() in inetd.c, which has over time become a crawling horror.
twice to enable wrapping for internal wrapping as well. If the option is
not specified wrapping is turned off so that inetd will behave exactly
as it used to before TCP Wrappers was imported.
Change etc/defaults/rc.conf so as to encourage wrapping on new systems.
Clarify the use of TCP Wrappers in the IMPLEMENTATION NOTES of the
manual page.
Approved by: jkh
1) Handle forking and non-forking internal services correctly.
Turn on wrapping for internal services because it works now.
2) Preserve server names for each service on HUP.
3) Honour hosts_options(5) severity option.
4) Add IMPLEMENTATION NOTES section to clarify TCP Wrappers
usage and limitations.
This change may cause previously allowed builtin services (e.g. daytime)
to be denied in existing configurations.
PR: 12097
Reviewed by: markm
1)
Reported by: Pierre Beyssac <pb@fasterix.freenix.org>
2)
Submitted by: Masachika ISHIZUKA <ishizuka@ish.org>
3)
Submitted by: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
Submitted by: Archie Cobbs (Archie@whistle.com)
Changes to allow inted to control the number of servers to
start on each service. This is a defence against a denial of service attack
in which the system is made unusable by
an external party. It also allows the behaviour of
small memory systems to be more accuratly predicted, by
bounding the extent to which processes can multiply.
