On Thu, Mar 20, 2014, Fernando Cassia wrote:
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Matthew Miller mattdm@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.
This has been a problem with various open source projects for decades, not so much removing something, but more often changing options and behaviours that break existing uses.
It wouldn't matter to me if it were dropped from CentOS or the upstream as we build our own, hacked to allow use of RBLs.
Bill