Package: libwrap0-dev (7.6.q-16)

Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers library, development files

Wietse Venema's network logger, also known as TCPD or LOG_TCP.

These programs log the client host name of incoming telnet, ftp, rsh, rlogin, finger etc. requests.

Security options are:

 - access control per host, domain and/or service;
 - detection of host name spoofing or host address spoofing;
 - booby traps to implement an early-warning system.

Tags: System Administration: Logging, Software Development: C Development, Libraries, Implemented in: C, Networking: Firewall, Network Protocol: TCP, Role: Development Library, Security: Firewall