On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 08:16:12PM -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Hi all, > > Just out of curiosity, why are instances of the dependency TCP-Wrappers > labeled as "deprecated"? As best as I can tell, it is still a valid utility > to control access to system daemons and resources. Though I can see IPTables > as a more robust package, Wrappers still works fine for small networks and is > much easier to configure. > > No big deal, I was just trying to find out the reasoning. > Please see the BLFS-dev archives from June 2012 under the title 'TCP Wrapper'. I agree with your comments, but I've managed to get iptables configured to replace it and so I'm happy to live without it. Put the emphasis on 'IPTables [is] more robust'.
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