On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 3:54 PM, James A. Peltier jpeltier@sfu.ca wrote:
I'd love to hear about the "old and unmaintainable code". It's open source code. If somethings broken you can fix it right!?! That's the open source mantra! Either provide a set of reasons why it should be removed and the alternatives that cover all the use cases of TCP Wrappers or let the code, that obviously works remain there undisturbed. It's an extra layer of security that administrators can use to secure their systems and it's dead simple to understand!
+1 If it works, it works. Period. It doesn't matter if it was coded by an ancient civilization carved in stone, or that it hasn't been updated in centuries.
Perhaps it hasn't been updated in centuries precisely because it work,s so there's no need to update it!
FC