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against libwrap directly. This is used by daemons that operate without being spawned from a super-server, or when a single process handles multiple connections. Otherwise, only the first connection attempt would get checked against its ACLs.
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ACL reconfiguration (i.e., services don't have to be reloaded or restarted) and a generic approach to network administration.
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When compared to host access control directives often found in daemons' configuration files, TCP Wrappers have the benefit of
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that implements the actual functionality. Initially, only services that were spawned for each connection from a
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by route|daemon9 - Phrack Magazine Volume 8, Issue 52 January 26, 1998, article 07
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workstations at the Department of Math and Computer Science at the
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TCP WRAPPER - Network monitoring, access control, and booby traps.
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by Wietse Venema (USENIX UNIX Security Symposium III, 1992)
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accepting services, examples of usage to filter on certain
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query replies, to be used as tokens on which to filter for
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Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute
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Index

TCP wrapper
Developer(s)
Wietse Venema
Stable release
Operating system
Unix-like
Type
License
BSD license
porcupine.org
ACL
filter
Internet Protocol
Unix-like
operating systems
Linux
BSD
subnetwork
IP addresses
names
ident
access control
Wietse Venema
Unix
Eindhoven University of Technology
BSD-style license
tarball
library
super-server
inetd

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