[CLUE-Tech] daemon question

[Jed S. Baer]

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 21:49:57 -0700
dan radom <dan at radom.org> wrote:

> > 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?
> 
> see man 5 hosts_access.  hosts_access(5) only works with apps that have
> libwrap support, or that are ran with tcpd.  iptables is the way to go
> on this.

Ah, yes. It all comes flooding back to me now. Thanks.

jed

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