Subject: Re: libwrap change for IPv6
To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: tech-net
Date: 08/12/1999 00:06:59
>>	I've made a patch for IPv6 support in libwrap.  This is based on
>>	NetBSD 1.4 code (hence tcp_wrapper 7.4), and should be easily applied
>>	to NetBSD-current code.  This involves following changes:
>just out of curiosity...why are we only using version 7.4?  did the
>"licence" change?

	No, just because I patched onto NetBSD 1.4 for testing.  When
	committing I can upgrade to latest (7.6 I suppose) then apply the
	patch.

>>	There are other patch available on the net but they change separator
>>	from colon to pipe sign, so it makes /etc/hosts.allow incompatible
>>	with previous installations.  I thought we should not impact
>>	compatibility with other systems so I used square brackets.
>would it not be better to remain the same as the world? 

	No, the "colon changed to pipe" patch is not widely used yet.
	This will also impact IPv4-only installation, because with "colon
	changed to pipe" patch people now needs
	to write
		telnetd| 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
	instead of
		telnetd: 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
	and it breaks compatibility with past libwrap (tcp_wrapper)
	installations.  By using square bracket (my patch) we don't need
	to change old configuration files.
	I'll try to talk with Wietse beforehand.

itojun