Re: Bug#773443: host.conf.5: spoof deprecated ?

Le lundi 09 mars 2015 à 08:22:01, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) a écrit :

Hello Stéphane

On 03/08/2015 02:05 PM, Stéphane Aulery wrote:

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** COPY OF GLIBC BUGZILLA #18091 FOR INFORMATION **
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18091

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Hello,

A Debian user reported that [1]:

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spoof* keywords (nospoof, spoofalert, spoof) are here from 1996,
they are still valid keywords but do not have any effect apparently,
no libraries or tools use them

it is misleading to see references to resolv+ and rlogin, the keywords
are just ignored these days; the only meaning they have is that they
are
allowed by host.conf syntax

The glibc source code seems to confirm that the keywords nospoof,
spoofalert and spoof are accepted but without effects. I could find
nothing in the changelog. Could you please confirm that they are
obsolete? I could correct the man page accordingly.

I had a quick grep in the glibc source code.

It appears that you (and the reporter) are correct. (Even back in 
glibc 2.1, things look the same).

A patch would be appreciated!

Eventually, I may check others values too.
Do you to want to drop obsolete values or add a note ?

Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane Aulery
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