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Re: Off-topic: Break-in attempts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Harding)
Sat Oct 17 14:55:49 1998
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 11:59:57 -0700
From: Sean Harding <sharding@gutenberg.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Sean Harding <sharding@oregon.uoregon.edu>
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On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Jeff Corwin wrote:
> Because I was hacked into last year due to the bind exploit, I have
> disabled all outside access in my /etc/hosts.deny file. I check my
Be aware that this doesn't actually deny *all* connections from the
outside...Only for stuff that uses tcp_wrappers...
sean
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