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

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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