inetd.conf -- IPv6 telnet

From: Andrew R. Reiter (arr@watson.org)
Date: 07/27/01 

Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 13:06:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Andrew R. Reiter" <arr@watson.org>
To: kris@obsecurity.org

kris,

just wondering about this thing i just noticed in 4-stable that telnet
comes default running under IPv6 in inetd.conf. not sure how likely
someone would exploit over IPv6, but i was wondering about consistancy in
relation to what's being done already for IPv4?

Andrew

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