Inetd and a service listening only on localhost

[Alex Zbyslaw]

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