[CLUE-Tech] daemon question

[Jed S. Baer]

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 19:40:08 -0700
Charles Oriez <coriez at oriez.org> 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.
> 
> once I add things to hosts.deny, do I need to bounce the daemons to have
> the changes take effect, or not?

I don't know, but I'll add another question. What is the scope of the
hosts.allow/deny files? I recall reading about these quite a while ago,
and concluding that they controlled only some TCP/IP traffic. Perhaps only
those services using inetd? At any rate, I can state that they did not
deny probing on my samba server, which I was starting out of rc.d, not
inetd. I know this because I had put a host restriction in my smb.conf
file, and my samba logs were full of "access denied" listings for lots of
IP addresses. Ratcheting up my firewall stopped that.

jed
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