Xinetd Supported?

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Hello,

I’d like to clarify a point about a particular package. It is the package concerning Xinetd, I thought that xinetd was no longer supported by the publisher, isn’t it deprecated ?

However, we can find version 2.3.15.4 in the Almalinux 8.x packages, does this imply that the patching (security) of the solution is assured until the end of life of almalinux 8, some sort of backporting ?

On the other hand, the package is not present on AlmaLinux 9 ? does it means xinetd shouldn’t be used on that version ?

Systemd Didn’t yet replaced xinetd on alamlinux 8 ?

In Advance, thank you for your response.

Best regards,

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Same question here.
We have some network routing problem solved too long, and the fast idea was to use xinetd as a port forwarding for the rtmps stream. But it looks like only alm8 had it now.

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First, xinetd is in el8, but is deprecated: Chapter 9. Deprecated functionality | 8.5 Release Notes | Red Hat Enterprise Linux | 8 | Red Hat Documentation
What is in el8, will be supported like el8 is supported – with backports.
(Note though that individual application streams may have shorter lifetime.)

Isn’t routing – particularly port forwards – mainly implemented with
nf_tables rules and network config (route tables)?

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Maybe there is a sense to be more flexible than a redhat and add it to the additional repos?