On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 05:37:27PM -0800, Karl J. Runge wrote:
> It is good to improve a tool like the inetd service. But to *force*
> everybody to immediately change over to a new syntax is uncool IMHO.
I agree. Of course, Devil's advocate types might point out that no
one is FORCING you to do anything... don't upgrade if you don't want
to, or go get the latest version of inetd if you like... :)
> We've seen this in ipfwadm -> ipchains and now ipchains -> iptables and
> elsewhere.
In these cases though, the change in syntax is well worth it, since
you're getting MUCH improved functionality, which also makes your
network MUCH more secure. Stateful packet inspection is generally
much harder to defeat than simple packet filtering...
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