[CLUE-Tech] precedence question - apache

[David Anselmi]

Charles Oriez wrote:
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> First question:
> 
> What gets queried first as he comes in the door, hosts.deny or httpd.conf? 
> I have him blocked in both.  I'm running Apache on Red Hat 9

Should be hosts.deny, if you're using inetd/tcpwrappers to start apache. 
  If not then hosts.deny is ignored and apache handles the blocking. 
That's just an educated guess.

Dave