On 2003-12-11 at 08:43 +0100, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote: > "Break down and use it" - now that's not really helpful, Jeremy. :-) In > John's defence, tcpserver, inetd, xinetd or whichever tcp wrapper will all > do the job.
For example, ipsvd by Gerrit Pape - see http://smarden.org/ipsvd/. > tcpserver has its advantages, but it's also old, practically unmaintained > (which is, arguably, a good thing as it has no known bugs) and lacks > several features that are important today, but weren't important when it > was originally written. The last update to the ucspi-tcp package was March > 18th 2000. Not that the lack of updates is necessarily a bad thing. ;) In this case, it is more of the indicator of stability. > I can say that tcpserver does its job, it's secure, it's somewhat > extensible and there are patches that give it support for some of today's > requirements such as IPv6 and DoS protection, filtering based on regular > expression matching of IP addresses, rate controlling. ipsvd adds a lot of "modern" features to tcpserver, while still keeping the same design, and being almost plug-in replacement for tcpserver. My 2 cents. Sergei
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