On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 11:08:02AM +0100, Greg MATTHEWS wrote:
> ah ok...
> 
> i was thinking of implementing port sentry which can drop offending hosts into 
> /etc/hosts.deny etc so i checked for tcp wrappers by looking through 
> inetd.conf and checking for hosts.deny and hosts.allow. assumed it wasnt 
> installed... probalby should have checked further!
> 
> its the first time i've seen:
> 
> ONLY_FOR_PLATFORM=      SunOS-*-*       # in NetBSD base system
> 
> in a makefile. i saw it there but didnt understand why it was there... hadnt 
> realised that pkgsrc was used by other platforms.
> 
> thanks for your help...

portsentry is already in pkgsrc too - pkgsrc/security/portsentry. On
NetBSD it adds entries to hosts.deny (though I've thought about adding
ipf support)

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