[Zope] Block IP address in Z-Server?

[Jerome Alet]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 12:46:20PM -0400, marc lindahl wrote:
> 
> 
> > From: Jerome Alet <alet@unice.fr>
> > 
> > Do you mean launching Zope through xinetd ?
> > 
> > Isn't it a big performance loss ?
> 
> No, you wouldn't want to do that, since it takes a while to launch... run
> zope (via init.d for example), but also run xinetd, set up to intercept
> anything on port 80.  What I do (since I'm currently just running zServer
> behind xinetd, no Squid yet), is redirect that (port 80 on any interface) to
> localhost:8080 and run zope to use that port... that way nothing can get
> around xinetd...  there are lots of similar ways to do it.  Then, you have
> all of xinetd's logging, blocking, etc. facilities.

What a good idea !

I didn't know that xinetd can do port redirections like that.

thanks for the tip.

Jerome Alet