Yes that's right, though others have pointed out applications that are exceptions to this rule. But it's prudent to assume that the hosts.deny and hosts.allow files aren't being consulted by applications not under inetd's control. Tony On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.) pushed some tiny letters in this order: > > Ok. So a point of clarification: If I find a port set to listen with the > nmap(?) utility and it is not in my inetd.conf, it is NOT using hosts.deny, > hosts.allow? > > Matt > > > > > Any services that don't use the inetd super server (from > > /etc/inetd.conf) > > are not covered by hosts.allow or hosts.deny. > > > > Tony > >
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