** Reply to message from Antony Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 08 Jul 2002 00:04:34 +0100
> On Sunday 07 July 2002 11:54 pm, Dennis Cardinale wrote: > > > When running a netfilter firewall, is there any reason to continue using > > the hosts.deny and hosts.allow files, or is this just superfluous? > > hosts.allow can still be useful to specify a command to run when a connection > comes in (eg to provide some special logging ?), but these files don't add > any security to a decently configured netfilter setup. Beg to differ. /etc/hosts.deny allows access tuning of services that are set wide open on the firewall, ssh being a prime example. jb -- Jack Bowling mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
