[CentOS] Does anyone use tcp wrappers (hosts.allow/hosts.deny) anymore?

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone use tcp wrappers (hosts.allow/hosts.deny) anymore? And,
>> would you care strongly if it went away (or would you just migrate to
>> something else)?
>
> Please don't remove it. Why  this sudden idea in software circles that
> stuff that works properly needs to be removed for no reason whatsoever
> other than "it's old and we think nobody uses it". How do you know?. IF IT
> AIN'T BROKEN, DON'T FIX IT. You might have heard of it.
>
> Fail2ban is one piece of software which interfaces with tcp wrappers.
> v0.9.0 just out
> http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

On the other hand, what justifiable reason was there for the massively
increased complexity of grub2? And why do all configuration files suddenly
*desperately* need to be xml?

           mark