On Thu, 10 Oct 2019 at 07:15, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

>
> That doesn't bode well for the number of people who would use or care
> about such a feature.
>

Agreed.  tcp_wrappers predates the widespread availability of easy,
effective software firewalls. Back when services listened on 0.0.0.0 and if
you were lucky you had ipfwadm, tcp_wrappers made a lot of sense. Now it's
IMO a pointless layer of additional complexity that no longer serves a
purpose.


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