Previously Guido Guenther wrote:
> According to upstream we can't hope that he will put portsentry under a
> license which debian considers as free in the near future so a free
> reimplementation would be great. Portsentry is a nice peace of software
> but it's missing some crucial features such as a pid file or more
> flexible syntax in the hosts.ignore file (such as ignore
> host:port1,port2).
Also features like much more flexible configuration of when something
should be blocked, how long something should be blocked, interfaces and/or
addresses to listen on, etc. Lots of good things can be added.
If you start with something like ippl as a base it shouldn't even be
extremely hard to do.
Wichert.
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