IPv6 hosts allow|deny

[Bert Vermeulen]

On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:

> Bert Vermeulen wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Does anyone know what the status is of Hideaki Yoshifuji's IPv6 ACL
> > patch? He's submitted this twice now, and that was 3 months ago.
> > Judging by the comments made when this was submitted, it's apparently
> > not understood how important this is.
> >
> > - if you IPv6 on your rsync server, you can not secure it with "hosts
> >   allow".
> >
> > - if you enable IPv6 on an rsync server that's secured with "hosts
> >   deny" to keep certain hosts out, well, they can get in again -- if
> >   they also have IPv6.
> >
> > Please, can this patch be merged into the next release? This is very
> > important! It is NOT new functionality, it's a security fix.
>
> I think the problem is that wget currently has *no active maintainers*.
>
> Based on a recent thread, there is no-one with CVS commit priviledges who
> reads this list.

I'm talking about rsync. This is the rsync list.


Bert Vermeulen
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