[Dxspider-support] Bad IP

Mike McCarthy, W1NR lists at w1nr.net
Wed Feb 5 18:11:28 GMT 2025


I did say "in some ways" such as (x)inetd listening on privileged telnet 
port 23 and spawning client as user sysop, not root.

Yes, I agree that it should not be used anymore. RHEL 9 (and Rocky 9) 
removed it from the distribution and it must be installed via rpm or 
built from source.

On 2/5/2025 11:51 AM, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> (x)inet(d) a secure system??
> 
> xinet (and all similar systems various) has been deprecated as a 
> (potential) security nightmare for at least the last 30 years (yes I am 
> that old, and more).
> 
-- 
73 de Mike, W1NR

THAT was the equation. EXISTENCE!... SURVIVAL... must cancel out... 
programming!

- Ruk -




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