IMHO, most definitely. Good security is best accomplished in layers. What if a remote exploit is released for netfilter? Continue to "harden" your box just like you would if you didn't even have netfilter. Remove uneeded services, tighter permissions, configure tcp wrappers, etc, etc.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Cardinale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Netfilter Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 5:54 PM Subject: hosts.deny > When running a netfilter firewall, is there any reason to continue using the > hosts.deny and hosts.allow files, or is this just superfluous? > > Thanks, > > Dennis > >
