On Tue Apr 2, 2024 at 12:30 PM BST, Marc Haber wrote: > Please don't drop the mechanism that saved my¹ unstable installations > from being vulnerable to the current xz-based attack. Just having to > dump an ALL: ALL into /etc/hosts.deny is vastly easier than having to > maintain a packet filter.
For you and fellow greybeards, perhaps: I'd be surprised if many people younger than us have even heard of tcp wrappers. I don't think the muscle memory of a diminishing set of users is a strong argument, especially given it's a preference rather than a requirement, and alternatives do exist. -- Please do not CC me for listmail. 👱🏻 Jonathan Dowland ✎ j...@debian.org 🔗 https://jmtd.net
