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Package: xinetd (1:2.3.14-7)

replacement for inetd with many enhancements

xinetd has access control mechanisms, extensive logging capabilities, the ability to make services available based on time, and can place limits on the number of servers that can be started, among other things.

It has the ability to redirect TCP streams to a remote host and port. This is useful for those of that use IP masquerading, or NAT, and want to be able to reach your internal hosts.

It also has the ability to bind specific services to specific interfaces. This is useful when you want to make services available for your internal network, but not the rest of the world. Or to have a different service running on the same port, but different interfaces.

Tags: User Interface: Daemon, Networking: Server, Service, Role: Program

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  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.7-1) [not ia64]
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    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
  • dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.7-1) [ia64]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6.1-udeb
  • dep: libgcc1 (>= 1:4.3) [armel]
    GCC support library
  • dep: libwrap0 [not hppa]
    Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers library
    dep: libwrap0 (>= 7.6-4~) [hppa]
  • dep: netbase
    Basic TCP/IP networking system
  • dep: update-inetd
    inetd configuration file updater

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Architecture Package Size Installed Size Files
amd64 143.6 kB328 kB [list of files]
armel 137.5 kB372 kB [list of files]
hppa 147.1 kB388 kB [list of files]
i386 132.7 kB304 kB [list of files]
ia64 183.4 kB556 kB [list of files]
mips 146.6 kB428 kB [list of files]
mipsel 146.9 kB428 kB [list of files]
powerpc 147.6 kB408 kB [list of files]
s390 144.5 kB384 kB [list of files]
sparc 133.5 kB368 kB [list of files]