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

Tue Sep 20 17:02:15 PDT 2005

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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