On Aug 18, Edward Welbourne <[email protected]> wrote: The current documentation has worked well enough for the past 15-20 years or so, but if you really believe that younger sysadmins may be as confused as you are then please send me a patch for hosts_access(5) which removes references to the old syntax.
> Further, given that the two syntaxes are incompatible, everything I can
> see tells me that reading of /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} is up to each
> application independently, so I have no way (as administrator of my box)
> to know how I can avoid problems with my setup if some applications
> choose to support the hosts_access format instead of the hosts_options
You are seriously misunderstanding how libwrap works: it is a library,
and it parses the hosts files by itself.
So maybe you will just want to close this bug instead.
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ciao,
Marco
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