On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, George Theall wrote: > Actually, Nessus only checks the host IP, not the hostname. [Search for > "hosts_ctl" in nessus-core/nessusd/nessusd.c.]
I thought tcpwrappers supported hostnames. Are you saying that nessus reads hosts.allow/hosts.deny, but doesn't really use the tcpwrappers library to grant access? I'm not a C programmer, but nessusd.c includes tcpd.h which has structures for supporting hostnames as well as IP addresses. Hostnames are kind of useful in tcpwrappers if you have nessus clients that use dynamic DNS. If client.codegnome.org always points to the current IP address of the client, but the IP changes periodically, managing by IP becomes a pain very quickly if you have a number of such clients. -- The DMCA is anti-consumer. The RIAA has no right to rewrite copyright laws to suit themselves.
