Author: OpenMacNews Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] lmtp delivery to cyrus store over unix socket requires
/etc/hosts.allow entry. why?
hi tony,
thx 4 the reply =)
>> QUESTION: why is a hosts.allow entry required in the 1st place for
>> lmtpunix transport over a UNIXsocket?
>>
>> and, why "0.0.0.0"?
>
> This looks like a Cyrus problem or a Mac OS X problem to me.
fair nuf. i'll take this to the 'right list'.
> The version of Cyrus I have here (heavily hacked 2.1.16)
fyi, mine's a patched cvs-head ('2.2.12-dev' ?)
> looks like it won't call
> tcpwrappers for Unix domain sockets. If the kernel lies to it and returns
> the wrong kind of socket address from getpeername() then Cyrus will do the
> wrong thing. I haven't tested Mac OS X to find out if this is the problem.
looking up getpeername() here in a sec ...
if there's a check you can suggest i can run to help clarify, happy to do so ...
> 0.0.0.0 is a synonym for localhost.
clear. just odd to me that they'd use 0.0.0.0, and that the "ususal" 127.0.0.1 or 'localhost'
entries in hosts.allow are simply infeffectual/ignored.
cheers,
richard
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