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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