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authorLaurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org>2023-11-18 04:17:07 +0000
committerLaurent Bercot <ska@appnovation.com>2023-11-18 04:17:07 +0000
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/etc/hosts support for s6-tcpclient and s6-tcpserver-access
Signed-off-by: Laurent Bercot <ska@appnovation.com>
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@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ just like tcpwrappers' <tt>tcpd</tt> program.
<h2> Interface </h2>
<pre>
- s6-tcpserver-access [ -v <em>verbosity</em> ] [ -W | -w ] [ -D | -d ] [ -H | -h ] [ -R | -r ] [ -P | -p ] [ -l <em>localname</em> ] [ -B <em>banner</em> ] [ -t <em>timeout</em> ] [ -i <em>rulesdir</em> | -x <em>rulesfile</em> ] <em>prog...</em>
+ s6-tcpserver-access [ -v <em>verbosity</em> ] [ -W | -w ] [ -D | -d ] [ -H ] [ -h ] [ -R | -r ] [ -P | -p ] [ -l <em>localname</em> ] [ -B <em>banner</em> ] [ -t <em>timeout</em> ] [ -i <em>rulesdir</em> | -x <em>rulesfile</em> ] <em>prog...</em>
</pre>
<ul>
@@ -106,8 +106,14 @@ drop the connection. </li>
flag on the network socket. </li>
<li> <tt>-d</tt>&nbsp;: enable Nagle's algorithm. This is the default. </li>
<li> <tt>-H</tt>&nbsp;: disable DNS lookups for the ${PROTO}LOCALHOST and
-${PROTO}REMOTEHOST environment variables. </li>
- <li> <tt>-h</tt>&nbsp;: enable DNS lookups. This is the default. </li>
+${PROTO}REMOTEHOST environment variables. The default, when this option
+is not given, is to try and read them from DNS. </li>
+ <li> <tt>-h</tt>&nbsp;: consult <tt>/etc/hosts</tt> before DNS. The default,
+when this option is not given, is to ignore <tt>/etc/hosts</tt>. Note 1:
+the <tt>-H</tt> option overrides this one, no DNS lookups means that the
+hosts database won't be consulted either. Note 2: if a name is obtained
+via the hosts database instead of DNS, any <tt>-p</tt> checks will be
+disabled for it. </li>
<li> <tt>-R</tt>&nbsp;: disable IDENT lookups for the ${PROTO}REMOTEINFO
environment variable. This is the default. </li>
<li> <tt>-r</tt>&nbsp;: enable IDENT lookups. This should only be done