Re: postfix and tcp_wrappers

From: Ben Rosengart (br+)
Date: Thu Aug 01 2002 - 01:11:30 EDT


On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 05:10:11PM +1000, Steffen Kluge wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> it appears that master doesn't use libwrap but listens on port 25
> directly. I assume client filtering is supposed to be performed via
> smptd_client_restrictions. But wouldn't it be better to reject a
> connection before an smtpd process is spawned? Is this a performance
> trade-off of some sort or am I just confused?

I hear the author of Postfix and the author of libwrap
just don't get along.

-- 
Ben Rosengart     (212) 741-4400 x215
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have to ask, "Whose business?  Theirs, or yours?"    --Tim O'Reilly
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