27 Aug
2001
27 Aug
'01
12:54 a.m.
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Kishor Bhagwat spewed into the ether: <snip>
Also, why not mention smtp in the inetd configuration file for incoming requests, and call sendmail?(though that wont achieve much, but just for academic interest!)
You can. Starting up a new instance of sendmail everytime is a major load on the system and hits performance. For similar reasons, Apache is also not called from inetd. Sendmail can be compiled with libwrap, and uinderstand hosts.allow and hosts.deny, but the protection offered by tcp-wrappers of preventing potentially hostile attackers from connecting to the server is not available in this case.
Devdas Bhagat
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