Any services that don't use the inetd super server (from /etc/inetd.conf)
are not covered by hosts.allow or hosts.deny.

Tony

On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.) pushed some tiny letters in this
order: > 
> My primary way of securing my home Linux box (which is on a wireless
> broadband modem 24/7 and static ip) is to use ALL:ALL in my /etc/hosts.deny
> file and then add specific, trusted, addresses to the hosts.allow file.  I
> also have an ipchains firewall running (it's a big one that I hand
> configured).  The subject line says it all.  What services running on a
> Linux box ignore the hosts.deny file and just listen on the ports for
> activity?
> 
> 

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