xinetd is a powerful replacement for inetd.
xinetd has access control machanisms, extensive logging capabilities,
the ability to make services available based on time, and can place
limits on the number of servers that can be started, among other things.

xinetd has the ability to redirect TCP streams to a remote host and
port. This is useful for those of that use ip masquerading, or NAT,
and want to be able to reach your internal hosts.

xinetd also has the ability to bind specific services to specific
interfaces. This is useful when you want to make services available
for your internal network, but not the rest of the world. Or to have
a different service running on the same port, but different interfaces.

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root    root             2467 fév 19  2004 /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root               41 fév 19  2004 /etc/sysconfig/xinetd
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root              295 fév 19  2004 /etc/xinetd.conf
drwxr-xr-x    2 root    root                0 fév 19  2004 /etc/xinetd.d
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root    root             2264 fév 19  2004 /usr/sbin/inetdconvert
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root    root           156940 fév 19  2004 /usr/sbin/xinetd-2.3.13
drwxr-xr-x    2 root    root                0 fév 19  2004 /usr/share/doc/xinetd-2.3.13
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root            41754 jan 22  2004 /usr/share/doc/xinetd-2.3.13/CHANGELOG
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             2087 fév 19  2003 /usr/share/doc/xinetd-2.3.13/COPYRIGHT
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root            10907 fév 19  2004 /usr/share/doc/xinetd-2.3.13/FAQ.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root              957 fév 19  2003 /usr/share/doc/xinetd-2.3.13/INSTALL
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             5493 fév 19  2003 /usr/share/doc/xinetd-2.3.13/README
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             4964 jun 23  2003 /usr/share/doc/xinetd-2.3.13/sample.conf
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             2102 fév 19  2004 /usr/share/man/man3/Sprint.3.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             1191 fév 19  2004 /usr/share/man/man3/m_env.3.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             1091 fév 19  2004 /usr/share/man/man3/misc.3.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             2030 fév 19  2004 /usr/share/man/man3/pset.3.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root              846 fév 19  2004 /usr/share/man/man3/psi.3.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             3933 fév 19  2004 /usr/share/man/man3/sio.3.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             1611 fév 19  2004 /usr/share/man/man3/strparse.3.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             1229 fév 19  2004 /usr/share/man/man3/strprint.3.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root              719 fév 19  2004 /usr/share/man/man3/strutil.3.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             2601 fév 19  2004 /usr/share/man/man3/xlog.3.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root            10320 fév 19  2004 /usr/share/man/man5/xinetd.conf.5.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             2144 fév 19  2004 /usr/share/man/man8/xconv.pl.8.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             2774 fév 19  2004 /usr/share/man/man8/xinetd.8.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             1403 fév 19  2004 /usr/share/man/man8/xinetd.log.8.bz2