From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?B?U3TDqXBoYW5l?= Aulery Subject: host.conf.5: spoof deprecated ? Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2015 14:05:10 +0100 Message-ID: <20150308130510.GA3004@free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: 773443-61a8vm9lEZVf4u+23C9RwQ@public.gmane.org Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org ** COPY OF GLIBC BUGZILLA #18091 FOR INFORMATION ** https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D18091 ----------------------------------------------------- Hello, A Debian user reported that [1]: > spoof* keywords (nospoof, spoofalert, spoof) are here from 1996, > they are still valid keywords but do not have any effect apparently, > no libraries or tools use them >=20 > it is misleading to see references to resolv+ and rlogin, the keyword= s > are just ignored these days; the only meaning they have is that they > are > allowed by host.conf syntax The glibc source code seems to confirm that the keywords nospoof, spoofalert and spoof are accepted but without effects. I could find nothing in the changelog. Could you please confirm that they are obsolete? I could correct the man page accordingly. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D773443 Regards, --=20 St=C3=A9phane Aulery -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html