Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 18:14:56 -0300
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.
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
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I will have to add my 2 cent request with FC. Please do not remove it!!!!
Greg Ennis