hm. it shoudl be able to restrict access via the hosts.allow/deny config in uniks to known hosts .. of course this is no help against ip spoofs ..
so, one more reason not to be running pd as root i guess. ;))
-- On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Miller Puckette wrote:
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