Goodbye SNMP, hello statistics.

[Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET]

> 
> Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote:
> > But it also kinda limits the usefulness of the feature. Couldn't you
> > place it in the hands of the server admins to decide which hosts can
> > query and which can't? Another configuration item in clients?
> 
>   <grumble>
> 
>   It's possible.  I guess.
> 
>   I think the safest thing to do is to have a socket that's *only* for
> these statistics.  That way it's clear that no authentication can be
> done using it. and "real" clients have no business querying it.
> 
	Maybe a quicker solution would be to enable libwrap for it?
I understand the changes to the code to support libwrap aren't too much,
and it can even be made optional via the ./configure .

			Tuc