Portmap, -h, and /etc/hosts.allow

[Dave Hayes <dave@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is there a reason that portmap opens a TCP socket bound to INADDR_ANY,
despite being told with the -h switch not to? The source code clearly
does this. 

Also, given a machine with two interfaces, 10.9.8.55 and 205.147.26.55
I've also noticed that adding

  portmap : 10.9.8.0/255.255.255.0 : allow
  portmap : ALL : deny

to the /etc/hosts.allow file will not block this TCP port from being
connected to via the 205.147.26.55 interface. 

I'd say this is a bug. Am I being too anal here?
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Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - dave@xxxxxxxxxxx 
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