[CLUE-Tech] daemon question

[David Anselmi]

Charles Oriez wrote:
> I'm about to start playing with the hosts.deny file on one of my servers 
> to block access for domains known to be spidering my site looking for 
> email addresses.

Why will you use hosts.deny and not iptables?

> once I add things to hosts.deny, do I need to bounce the daemons to have 
> the changes take effect, or not?

Not if they are run by tcpd from inetd (or xinetd).  You might if the 
daemons run by themselves and are linked to libwrap (Google doesn't make 
it clear).  Try it and see.  (You probably want to try it and see to 
make sure it does what you expect -- and to make sure your binary is 
actually linked to libwrap.)

Dave