Re: [PATCH 0/3] nfs-utils: Enabling TCP wrappers

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Chuck Lever wrote:
> On Dec 15, 2008, at 11:54 AM, Steve Dickson wrote:
>> Recently I was asked to re-enable the TCP wrapper calls, that check the
>> validity of client that communicate with mountd and statd.
>>
>> It became very apparent this code had not been used in a while
>> and was as a bit broken. So this patch set fixes the logic and
>> tries to make the code scale better.
>>
>> The commit blobs in the set are relative to the 'tcpwrap'
>> branch in the git://linux-nfs.org/~steved/nfs-utils-exp.git
>> git tree.
>>
>> Comments?
> 
> A general comment:  This code will need support for IPv6 addresses.
> 
> Until it has it, perhaps we should add some logic to configure.ac that
> prevents the use of tcpwrappers when --enable-ipv6 is in effect.
Good point...

steved.

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