Inetd and a service listening only on localhost
Alex Zbyslaw
xfb52 at dial.pipex.com
Thu May 5 16:46:36 PDT 2005
Karol Kwiatkowski wrote:
>Is possible to run a service listening only on localhost with inetd?
> How to configure inetd in such case (an entry in /etc/hosts.allow?)
>or should I disable such configuration?
>
>
You can (and probably should) do that but why not just block the
incoming connections with a firewall? Hosts.allow would just be there
for backup.
--Alex
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