> Hosts.deny works with inetd and tcpwrappers. Any service that is handled by > inetd and passed to tcpwrappers can be configured by restrictions in > hosts.deny. > > I am not aware that any other processes use hosts.allow/hosts.deny, but if > anyone else knows, please mention it. > > You may also wish to look into adding portsentry (www.psionic.com) to your > firewall arsenal. It will sit in the backgrounk listening to all the ports > for innapropriate packet behaviour, and drop the offending IP into > hosts.deny, as well as killing the route either with the route command, or > ipchains if you add the line to do so. openSSH (sshd) uses the hosts.allow and hosts.deny, even though it is run as a daemon instead of using inetd. However it must be compiled with '--tcp_wrappers', which I'm sure that Jean-Michel would have done for the Mandrake RPM files. Thanks... Dan.
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