nbd swap server, inetd, SO_KEEPALIVE

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Tue, 08 May 2007, Scott Balneaves wrote:

> Didn't even get a chance to say, "fare thee well" before you left, 

Nor did I :-)  I guess I can say farewell now.

> In a flash of insight, the veil was lifted from my eyes.  We use tcpd
> (as do most programs started from inetd) to control policy to the
> nbdswapd process.
> 
> Adding the following line to /etc/hosts.allow:
> 
> nbdswapd: ALL: keepalive

Excellent.  I've done the same, though changing ALL to my local subnet
only.

Was great to work with you guys in Seville.  Hopefully we might get to do
it again soon,

Gavin