Darren Reed wrote: > Is SMF responsible for the conversion of 'internal' services > supplied by inetd to external services? >
Yes, the project that integrated SMF included those conversions. > If there is no longer any such thing as an 'internal' service > for inetd, then why can I register an inetd service > (using inetconv) successfully? > The man page still documents 'internal' as referring to a > service that inetd provides itself - is this technically true > for any service, now? > No, it's not true anymore, however read the disclaimer at the end of inetd.conf. Perhaps it might be clearer, if you have suggestions file a man page bug. And perhaps there's a bug in inetconv, but it should not be allowing for any "internal" services to be converted - see valid_inetconfent() in inetconv.c. > Previously it was possible to individually control whether > or not services such as echo and friends were enabled for > IPv4 or IPv6. This control seems to have vanished? > Or have I not looked hard enough? > Set the "proto" property on the service. Dave
