In message <20051103225851.GD7571@frohike.nvie.com>, Peter Bex writes:
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>On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:47:29PM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>> The short answer is "brain damage"; lpr want to check hostnames against
>> /etc/hosts.lpd.
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>Why is this necessary?  Isn't it possible to have just IP addresses in
>hosts.lpd?  Or IP ranges and "partial" IP addresses like '192.168.', as
>is accepted by hosts.allow/hosts.deny?
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As I said, "brain damage".  It's bad code that should be rewritten.  To 
show you just how bad, it uses an internal function in rcmd.c that is 
preceeded by the following comments:

/*
 * XXX  
 * Don't make static, used by lpd(8).  We will be able to change the function
 * into static function, when we bump libc major #.
 *      
 * Returns 0 if ok, -1 if not ok.
 */     
#ifdef notdef   /*_LIBC*/
static  
#endif  


		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb