[luau] tftp/xinetd config question

Mike Ballon calzonie at hotmail.com
Thu Sep 5 10:21:01 PDT 2002


If you have a ipchains/iptables firewall you can do it from there or just
use tcp wrappers.  I've never used the "only_from" option so if that works I
wouldn't mind knowing as well.

http://docsrv.caldera.com/NET_tcpip/filterN.tcp_wrap_ex.html

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Lockhart" <lockhart at jeans.ifa.hawaii.edu>
To: "luau" <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 1:31 PM
Subject: [luau] tftp/xinetd config question


>
> I'm still plugging away at trying to configure my tftpd stuffs.  In the
> /etc/xinetd.d/tftp file I added a line kind of like:
>
> {
> ...
> only_from = 128.666.777.0
> ...
> }
>
> which I thought would configure the tftpd/xinetd setup to allow tftp
> communication only from the 128.666.777.* ip's, but it didn't work, it
> allowed tftp from any machine.
>
> I then modified the only_from line to
>
> only_from = 128.666.777.999
>
> thinking this would work (i only really need to use one at a time
> anyways), but again, it allowed tftp service from any machine.
>
> So where am I going horribly wrong here?  I read the man page, it seemed
> to make sense, what did I miss?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Charles
>
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