[PATCH]: Add tcp_wrappers protection to port forwarding

[Chris Faylor]

On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 05:28:04PM +0200, Markus Friedl wrote:
>On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 11:29:45AM -0400, Chris Faylor wrote:
>> >why should a client programm read /etc/hosts.allow?
>> 
>> Probably it shouldn't.  I didn't know of any way to avoid this, however.
>
>the problem is that if you want to use -L in your client, you
>cannot, because of /etc/hosts.allow which is under control of
>the sysadmin.

AFAICT, this would only be a problem if the sysadmin specifically set up
a rule to disallow the use of the port.  I just tried this with a port
that I hadn't put under hosts.allow control and there was no problem.

I don't see any harm in letting a sysadmin specify port policy like
this.

cgf