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Additional information concerning TCP wrappers and
xinetd is available on your system and on the Web.
The bundled documentation on your system is a good place to start
looking for additional TCP Wrappers, xinetd, and
access control configuration options.
/usr/share/doc/tcp_wrappers-<version>
— Contains a README file that discusses
how TCP wrappers work and the various hostname and host address
spoofing risks that exist.
/usr/share/doc/xinetd-<version>
— Includes a README file that discusses
aspects of access control and a sample.conf
file with various ideas for modifying
/etc/xinetd.d service configurations.
For detailed information concerning the creation of TCP wrapper
access control rules, read the hosts_access
(section 5) and hosts_options man pages.
The xinetd and
xinetd.conf man pages contain additional
information for creating xinetd configuration
files and a description of how xinetd works.
http://www.xinetd.org
— The home of xinetd, containing sample
configuration files, a full listing of features, and an
informative FAQ.
http://www.macsecurity.org/resources/xinetd/tutorial.shtml
— A thorough tutorial that discusses many different ways to
tweak default xinetd configuration files to
meet specific security goals.
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