Re: Portmap, -h, and /etc/hosts.allow

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave Hayes wrote:
> Is there a reason that portmap opens a TCP socket bound to INADDR_ANY,
> despite being told with the -h switch not to? The source code clearly
> does this.

     -h      Specify specific IP addresses to bind to for UDP requests.
                                                          ^^^

> Also, given a machine with two interfaces, 10.9.8.55 and 205.147.26.55
> I've also noticed that adding
>
>   portmap : 10.9.8.0/255.255.255.0 : allow
>   portmap : ALL : deny
>
> to the /etc/hosts.allow file will not block this TCP port from being
> connected to via the 205.147.26.55 interface.

portmap doesn't use tcpwrappers (hosts.allow) but hosts_access.

> I'd say this is a bug. Am I being too anal here?

yes :)

cheers
  simon

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