[olug] RH 7 review

[Daniel Pfile]

just a quick note, i saw the mention of xinetd and it sparked a bit of
intrest. here's what debian says about it, if anybody wants a quick and
dirty info (from woody, aka debian 2.3)

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xinetd - replacement for inetd with many enhancements

xinetd has access control machanisms, extensive logging capabilities, the
ability to make services available based on time, and can place limits on
the number of servers that can be started, among other things.

It has the ability to redirect TCP streams to a remote host and port. This
is useful for those of that use ip masquerading, or NAT, and want to be
able to reach your internal hosts.

It also has the ability to bind specific services to specific interfaces. 
This is useful when you want to make services available for your internal 
network, but not the rest of the world. Or to have a different service 
running on the same port, but different interfaces.

-- SNIP --

maybe i'll play with it... the cool thing about debian is it's only a
couple keystrokes away.

| Daniel Pfile        | I'm too cool for a signature |
| pfiled at marietta.edu |                              |

On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Vincent wrote:

> jkennedy at orent.com wrote:
> > 
> > Anyone interested in a brief review of RH 7.  (I was given a beta copy
> > to use while doing the technical editing for the soon to be published
> > RedHat7 Unleashed book)
> > If enough people care I'll post one.
> > John
> > 
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> 
> I've been working with it for a few of weeks now, so I'll probably have
> something to add.  I'm really starting to like xinetd.
> 
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