On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 09:42:26PM +0200, Ragnar Thomsen wrote: > On Thursday 28 June 2012 14:05:45 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > Armin K. wrote: > > > I was looking at TCP Wrapper and there is really no use for it on modern > > > Linux kernels. It's real purpose were monitoring and filtering network > > > access to some services iirc. But today Netfilter and Iptables do that > > > and lot more, so I suggest we remove it and don't even mention it. It's > > > way too old, unmaintained and imho unnecesary today. > > > > > > It is a very old program. The date I see is 1997. On the other hand, I > > don't think it is any effort to just leave it in the book. > > > > What do others think? > > To reduce the complexity of the book, I think the more old obsolete packages > we remove the better. If no packages require TCP-wrappers, I suggest we > remove > it. > I've always built it since I first had a home network, in the belief that it was expected. Most distros still carry it, but I see that Arch dropped it last year, so I suppose we can do the same.
Can't say I'm in a rush to work out what to put into iptables scripts to replace it, but that's not a reason to keep it in the book. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
