On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, David Malone wrote:

> Some people think that doing the hosts.allow lookup is too expensive
> for some services but not others. (It requires opening /etc/hosts.allow,
> reading it in line by line and possibly doing DNS lookups).

I would hope that anyone concerned about speed would be writing tcp-wrappers
rules with numbers, not names.

--
 Ben

UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group
StarMedia Network, Inc.



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