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Sometime Today, Rajen Parekh assembled some asciibets to say:
> On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Philip S Tellis wrote:
>
> > 3) Edit /etc/inetd.conf and comment out any servers that you do not need.
>
> I don't have any such file as /etc/inetd.conf. I checked and it seems that
> I have not installed the inet services package itself. Is it important to
> have it? Why is it needed? I have never had problem accessing the net
> without it so far [if it is supposed to aid in accessing it].
Nope, you need it if your system is used as a server. You may want it if
you tend to telnet localhost or ftp localhost, but not otherwise.
> > 4) Edit /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny
>
> My hosts.deny file has this line,
>
> ALL:ALL
>
> And my hosts.allow file has this line,
>
> ALL:localhost
Yes, your hosts.allow and deny files are pretty much perfect. No one can
access your machine from the outside because have few servers running (no
inetd) and those that are aren't accessible from outside
(hosts.allow/deny)
Philip
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