[Dovecot] tcp-wrappers.patch

Frank Elsner frank at moltke28.B.Shuttle.DE
Thu Jul 24 00:24:48 EEST 2008


On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:05:13 +0200 Edgar Fuß wrote:
> > Why this? I do this with iptables.
> Hm. Mainly because I find hosts.{allow,deny} easier to handle in this case than (i)pf.conf. It's also somewhat more staightforward to maintain a single pair of hosts.* files consistent accross all mail servers than to deal with individual packet filter
> rules. And, if you like to, you can do more elaborate things with tcp wrappers than what I mentioned (and currently need).

I maintain the iptables configuration(s) (on Fedora in /etc/sysconfig/iptables)
across machines using scp or rsync. No problem.


--Frank Elsner


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