Hi Mark, Hmmm, that's interesting. My definition for "sendmail" in inetd.conf is commented out, does sendmail start as part of the imap package? I think it does (been a long time since I looked), and imap starts with the "tcpd" invocation (ftp, telnet and several others do as well). When I check my mail log (/var/log/mail) I can definitely see the hosts in /etc/hosts.deny being blocked by tcpwrappers. Here is an example:
Jul 8 18:14:41 linux sendmail[5070]: h68MEaPK005070: tcpwrappers (unknown, 80.148.20.0) rejection So it appears that sendmail is using tcpwrappers. Is the CIDR addressing format supported for /etc/hosts.deny in SuSE 8? Michael Coffin, VM Systems Programmer Internal Revenue Service - Room�6030 1111 Constitution Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C.� 20224 Voice: (202)�927-4188�� FAX:� (202) 622-6726 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----Original Message----- From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 3:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SuSE 8 /etc/hosts.deny and CIDR Michael, Is your SMTP server actually _using_ tcpwrappers? Most of them do not. You would have to be starting it like this: /usr/sbin/tcpd /path/to/your/smtpdaemon Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Coffin Michael C [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 11:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SuSE 8 /etc/hosts.deny and CIDR Hi Folks, Can you use CIDR addressing in /etc/hosts.deny? This is SuSE 8 by the way. I've got a statement in hosts.deny which reads: ALL: 192.168.0.0/18 to reject everything from 192.168. (actual IP's are different) but an IP address in that range was allowed to connect to my SMTP server. Shouldn't tcpwrappers have blocked it? Michael Coffin, VM Systems Programmer Internal Revenue Service - Room 6030 1111 Constitution Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20224 Voice: (202) 927-4188 FAX: (202) 622-6726 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
