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Re: qpopper through TCP wrappers



Correct me if I wrong, but qpopper works only with inetd and it is single
thread program so even it was compiled without inetd it would fork for
each request


Leonid Igolnik aka LiM

 On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Omer Efraim wrote:

|Actually, my reasoning against using this method
|on a loaded machine is not due to any problem with tcpd,
|but rather with inetd. Linking qpopper against libwrap
|and using tcp wrappers that way is just fine even for
|loaded machines, but inetd is just too costly in these
|situations (forking a completely new process for each new
|request of telnet/ftp/pop/whatever - fine for a small server,
|death for heavily used machines).
|
|Leonid Igolnik - LiM wrote:
|> 
|> |I have never used qpopper, and therefore do not know
|> |if it has built-in support for tcp wrappers, but you
|> |if performence is not that much of an issue (i.e., this
|> |is not a machine servicing thousands of users per minute),
|> Actually even if your machine is "servicing thousands" I still would
|> suggest using tcpd for all kind of purposes - starting from auditing and
|> logging. I know many machines ISP's and non that run pop service using
|> tcpd.
|> 
|> |just stick it in inetd and launch thru tcpd.
|> |
|> |Aviram Jenik wrote:
|> |>
|> |> Hi.
|> |>
|> |> How can I run qpopper through tcp wrappers?
|> |> Does it require a recompilation of qpopper?
|
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Leonid Igolnik aka LiM


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