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

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Am 22.03.2014 03:21, schrieb Lennart Poettering:
> On Sat, 22.03.14 01:20, Miloslav Trmač (mitr@xxxxxxxx) wrote:
>> DNS queries can't really be done within the firewall (and due to the
>> circular dependency between having the firewall up before allowing access
>> to the network and needing access to the network to resolve DNS names, they
>> can't even be used in the on-disk firewall configuration).  Having a single
>> centralized name->IP address repository instead of having a redundant copy
>> in each host, and having the configuration use readable names instead of IP
>> addresses, makes some difference in usability and management overhead.
> 
> This is supposedly security functionality. You shouldn't build your
> security functionality on top of DNS. If you do, then you gain no
> security

in your world one thing rules all true
in the world of *layered* security not true

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