Re: CF: Re:Banning players

[Robert Brockway <robert@blake.humbug.org.au>]

On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Aaron Baugher wrote:

> > Why redo what is already around.  Just use tcp wrappers (man tcpd).
> > Tcp wrappers is usally fired up via inetd, but I can't see why it
> > couldn't be run as a standalone server to control access to
> > crossfire.
> 
> For that matter, just use hosts.deny and hosts.allow.  I don't see off 
> the top of my head why that wouldn't work.

Those are the config file for tcp wrappers.  I should have mentioned that,
but as Mark has mentioned, there are infact technical problems with using
'wrappers'.
Cheers,
	-Robert

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