Subject: Re: Migrating from FreeBSD to NetBSD: general questions
To: Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com>
From: Jean-Luc Wasmer <jl+netbsd@lists.wasmer.ca>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/25/2005 14:48:03
Andy Ruhl wrote:

>192.168.1.1:telnet   stream  tcp     nowait  root   
>/usr/libexec/telnetd telnetd
>
>I confirmed with netstat -an that port 23 is only listening on
>192.168.1.1, not *.23.
>
>Thanks for that.
>
>Might still be nice to just restrict the entire inetd to an address or
>interface, but this will do nicely.
>  
>
Also from inetd(8):

 To avoid repeating an address that occurs fre-
 quently, a line with a host address specifier and colon, but no further
 fields, causes the host address specifier to be remembered and used for
 all further lines with no explicit host specifier (until another such
 line or the end of the file).

JL