[stunnel-users] Dynamic hosts

Tue Jun 23 17:01:06 CEST 2009

On Tue, 2009-06-23 10:33:14 -0400, Terry Riegel wrote:
> Well, that would be one way of doing it. I would prefer to have  
> stunnel running as a daemon and just pass a FQDN and local port number  
> to it. But it may not be able to do that.

You are right. Currently, stunnel's configuration can't be changed at
run-time (and I still don't see a need for that).

> If I did it the way you are suggesting then 5 concurrent users would  
> fire up 30 processes. On my system starting the daemon starts 6  
> processes, and if I start it up again I get another 6 processes.

Is this still true with 'foreground = yes'?

For reducing the number of processes, you might also try to configure
stunnel with --disable-libwrap. If you run stunnel from within a CGI,
you will be accepting connections from localhost only anyway.

HTH,

Ludolf

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