Alan McKinnon wrote on 28/06/08 08:54:
The ~x86 branch seems to have settled into not-so-cutting-edge anymore,
quite similar to what other distros release - Ubuntu for examples.
x86 seems to be taking it's lead lately from Debian :-)
Would it were so!
tcp-wrappers bug 158306, opened on 2006-12-13, refers to available
Debian source patches.
The Debian patches, which enable CIDR notation in tcp-wrappers, have
still not been applied to the current ebuild.
The last 'news' in the bug was dated 2007-05-28. Yes, 2007, not a typo.
Worse still is that bug 16091, closed on 2003-08-15, claims that the
current Gentoo tcp-wrappers ebuild supports DNS.
However, it does not work correctly, either with or without the ipv6 use
flag enabled.
Tcp-wrappers using DNS works under other distributions; the problem is
definitely not a configuration error in hosts.allow and/or hosts.deny on
my Gentoo system.
Sadly, Gentoo seems to be slipping way behind other distributions.
While bug reports are either being ignored or are being incorrectly
closed, this situation will inevitably become worse.
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