On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> question -- i'm looking at someone's system right now, and they have an
> /etc/hosts.deny:
>
> ALL: ALL
> ALL: 169.237.43.66
> ALL: 169.237.43.67
> ALL: 169.237.43.33
> ALL: 169.237.43.31
> ... etc ...
>
> does this make sense? doesn't the first line pretty much say it all?
It does. The rest might be from portsentry....
> also - just so i have this clear, tcpd works in the following way:
>
> 1. see if the host is allowed (allow). if so, don't go to 2.
> 2. see if the host is denied (deny). if so, don't go to 3.
> 3. allow access
>
> is that right?
per "man 5 hosts_access", yes, that is right.
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