Feature disappeared?

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 01:55:29PM +0200, Pekka Savola wrote:
> > > I nagged about AllowHosts _a lot_ but eventually patched TCP Wrappers so
> > > that it can take more complex host definitions too (like *isdn1*.isp.com).
> > What's your gripe with AllowHosts?
> That it was dropped in OpenSSH.  

Ah!  Now I understand (I understood that you had been opposing AllowHosts,
which is just to the contrary...).

> As for the reasons of griping, regular TCP wrappers are rather inflexible.
> Here's an example.  ISP might define its address pools like
> 
> blahlah12311.newyork5.isp.com
> blahlah12311.newyork6.isp.com
> blahlah12311.newyork7.isp.com
> blahlah12311.newyork8.isp.com
> blahlah12311.newyork9.isp.com
> [ etc. the point is newyorkX ]
> 
> With regular TCP Wrappers, the only chance you have to define these,
> really, are:

Yes.  I fully understand :)

gert
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