[TriLUG] VNC questions -

[Jeremy P]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, H Brett Bolen wrote:

> I have linksys router and NAT on my box, so nothing can
> come into this box.  I don't know why /etc/hosts.allow affects
> xinetd.  ( there is no tcpd, does xinetd use /etc/hosts.allow
> automatically?)

Yes, xinetd by default usess "libwrap," the library that reads hosts.allow
and hosts.deny.  You can disable this by including the "NOLIBWRAP" flag in
xinetd.conf (see xinetd.conf man page).  When that flag is set, you can
call tcpd the old-style way if you wanted.

--Jeremy