43.5.5.1. Installed Documentation
The documentation on your system is a good place to start looking for additional configuration options for TCP Wrappers, xinetd, and access control.
/usr/share/doc/tcp_wrappers- — This directory contains a <version>/README file that discusses how TCP Wrappers work and the various hostname and host address spoofing risks that exist.
/usr/share/doc/xinetd- — This directory contains a <version>/README file that discusses aspects of access control and a sample.conf file with various ideas for modifying service-specific configuration files in the /etc/xinetd.d/ directory.
TCP Wrappers and xinetd-related man pages — A number of man pages exist for the various applications and configuration files involved with TCP Wrappers and xinetd. The following are some of the more important man pages:
man xinetd — The man page for xinetd.
man 5 hosts_access — The man page for the TCP Wrappers hosts access control files.
man hosts_options — The man page for the TCP Wrappers options fields.
man xinetd.conf — The man page listing xinetd configuration options.