Configuring and Managing MPE/iX Internet Services (August 2002)

Chapter 2
Internet Daemon
inetd Security File
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Using Wildcard Characters
You may use wildcard characters (*) in any of the fields of the address to specify permissions for a group of
hosts or networks. This makes it more convenient to specify an entire network, since you will not need to
specify each host in that network. The following sample entry, for example, allows all hosts with network
addresses starting with a 10, as well as the single host whose address is 192.54.24.5 to use Telnet:
telnet allow 10.* 192.54.24.5
You cannot use the wildcard character in combination with other integers in one part of an address field. For
example, this entry in the inetd security file will generate an error message because the second field includes
a 5 followed by the * character:
tftp deny 10.5*
Either integers or the wildcard character is allowed in one part of an address field.