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Re: /etc/hosts.deny

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Drew Eckhardt)
Thu Aug 24 05:22:38 1995

To: Andrew Crawford <andrew@cludge.colloquium.co.uk>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Aug 1995 21:16:56 BST."
             <Pine.LNX.3.91.950822211409.200A-100000@cludge> 
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 13:24:01 -0600
From: Drew Eckhardt <drew@poohsticks.org>

In message <Pine.LNX.3.91.950822211409.200A-100000@cludge>, andrew@cludge.collo
quium.co.uk writes:
>
>I'm trying to block access to all ports from a particular host. Putting
>the hostname in /etc/hosts.deny doesn't seem to have any effect - even
>after a reboot. Any idea why, or what I'm doiong wrong?

Incorrect syntax.  You need to do 

	ALL: bad-host.com


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