From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Dickson Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] nfs-utils: Enabling TCP wrappers Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:56:38 -0500 Message-ID: <49469A56.1070704@RedHat.com> References: <49468BC7.2000907@RedHat.com> <1819C671-5353-45B4-A814-98B1B2A4BEB1@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Linux NFS Mailing list To: Chuck Lever Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:55977 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750967AbYLOR6y (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:58:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1819C671-5353-45B4-A814-98B1B2A4BEB1@oracle.com> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Chuck Lever wrote: > On Dec 15, 2008, at 11:54 AM, Steve Dickson wrote: >> Recently I was asked to re-enable the TCP wrapper calls, that check the >> validity of client that communicate with mountd and statd. >> >> It became very apparent this code had not been used in a while >> and was as a bit broken. So this patch set fixes the logic and >> tries to make the code scale better. >> >> The commit blobs in the set are relative to the 'tcpwrap' >> branch in the git://linux-nfs.org/~steved/nfs-utils-exp.git >> git tree. >> >> Comments? > > A general comment: This code will need support for IPv6 addresses. > > Until it has it, perhaps we should add some logic to configure.ac that > prevents the use of tcpwrappers when --enable-ipv6 is in effect. Good point... steved.