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RE: Binding inetd to ip
From: "Ewing, Timothy K." <Timothy.Ewing () celera com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 16:38:26 -0500
Is it possible to bind inetd to a specific ip address/ethernet card under linux? I haven't been able to find any info myself, but the reason I ask is because I currently am running a nameserver that has two network cards.
Probably not without hacking inetd. I belive it does a bind to 0.0.0.0,
which effectively >means "bind to all IPs on the system." You'd have to change it to bind to a specific >interface, which is probably not all that difficult to do. I was faced with a similar problem/desire on a home firewall (Linux RH 6.1 and TIS FWTK) and I remember reading about a program several years ago (the development of it has picked up lately) called xinetd. Xinetd uses a file called xinetd.conf and has a little script called "itox" to convert inetd.conf syntax to xinetd.conf syntax. It is used to bind specific services to IP addresses. So for example I have all my proxies for the FWTK bound to the internal interface, and nothing for the external. Go the following site to get source and information. http://synack.net/xinetd -- ============================================================================ ============ Timothy K. Ewing Timothy.Ewing () celera com Security Analyst (240) 453-3091 phone Celera Genomics, A PE Corporation Business (240) 453-3305 fax
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