Hi, I was wondering if it is necessary to create a new thread just for inetd/xinetd... Two guys said this : >« Wait, what's wrong with inetd? » and, this : >« That ellipsis really should be filled in with more details. Would you >perhaps be willing to elaborate a bit on what you mean? »
These are simple questions from people who would like to understand, nothing else of course.At least, understand that they are NOT trolls. 1/ As I've stated in the past according to people I do know, for security reason, inetd/xinetd is not recommended.I was explained to never use ONE daemon for many servers. When needed ONE daemon for ONE server and not more. At least if you must use inetd, use xinetd. 2/ Xinetd is old (four years ?) so may be not secure. 3/ And this info should definitely helps : rc or inetd? What should I use? | The FreeBSD Forums « Modern FreeBSD installations run separate daemons for almost every service nowadays, and inetd is all but deprecated. It's probably only around for historical/compatibility reasons. Starting services from /etc/rc.conf is the modern FreeBSD way. » P.S. : I will never understand why people don't know about security issue when it comes to inetd. Best Regards K.
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