17.5. Additional Resources
Additional information concerning TCP wrappers and
xinetd is available from system documentation and on the Internet.
17.5.1. Installed Documentation
The bundled documentation on your system is a good place to start looking for additional TCP Wrappers,
xinetd, and access control configuration options.
/usr/share/doc/tcp_wrappers-<version>/— This directory contains aREADMEfile that discusses how TCP wrappers work and the various hostname and host address spoofing risks that exist./usr/share/doc/xinetd-<version>/— This directory contains aREADMEfile that discusses aspects of access control and asample.conffile with various ideas for modifying service-specific configuration files in the/etc/xinetd.d/directory.- TCP wrappers and
xinetdrelated man pages — There are a number of man pages for the various applications and configuration files involved with TCP wrappers andxinetd. The following lists some of the more important man pages.- Server Applications
man xinetd— The man page for thexinetdsuper service daemon.
- Configuration Files
man 5 hosts_access— The man page for the TCP wrappers hosts access control files.man hosts_options— The man page for the TCP wrappers options fields.man xinetd.conf— The man page listingxinetdconfiguration options.
