Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

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On 03/20/2014 11:59 AM, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> 
>> I wonder whether it wouldn't be time to say goodbye to
>> tcpwrappers in Fedora.
> 
> I'd be happy to see those go.
> 
> Those who depend on it though, should see some "failed closed" 
> behaviour, so their service does not suddenly become more exposed.
> 
> Paul

Yeah I am not sure you are going to be able to make a totally clean
cut, there are some of us out there who still use this and it works,
despite however much crap it is underneath the covers.

A fail closed would be a decent first step, but as I said dropping it
altogether without some mitigation would be a bad move I believe.

Just my two cents,

- -Erinn
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