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With xinetd, support for Howl was added in 2.3.14, and for Rendezvous in 2.3.8. The slight hiccup is that Rendezvous has morphed into Bonjour. However, since I use Bonjour (or mDNSResponderPosix which is how its called in my gentoo-based system) I spent a few hours last week hacking Bonjour support into xinetd 2.3.14.

For those who want to experience this bit of xinetd and Bonjour hackery now, the patch file you need is xinetd-2.3.14-bonjour.patch. Please note that you must to run autoconf before doing ./configure && make && make install.

For those who use gentoo, I’ve made available an ebuild which applies this patch.

To get this ebuild into your local portage tree do:

# rsync -rztp --delete rsync://rsync.omz13.com/local-portage/sys-apps/xinetd /usr/local/portage/sys-apps

Then emerge =sys-apps/xinetd-2.3.14-r1001. 

Enjoy.