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Re: /etc/hosts.deny
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Howell)
Thu Aug 24 21:36:49 1995
From: andrew@kryten.it.com.au (Andrew Howell)
To: andrew@cludge.colloquium.co.uk (Andrew Crawford)
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 13:51:36 +0800 (WST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950822211409.200A-100000@cludge> from "Andrew Crawford" at Aug 22, 95 09:16:56 pm
> 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?
hosts.deny only affects things that go through the tcpd
i.e. in /etc/inetd.conf
telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
How did you specify the host in /etc/hosts.deny?
should have been something like
ALL: host
Andrew
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Andrew Howell andrew@it.com.au
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