if i can secure my box with hosts.allow file,
why do i then need iptables to secure mybox.
what i can effectively block with iptables, can i also do the same with
hosts.allow?

Arvind

----- Original Message -----
From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: [LIH]logwatch logs


| "Arvind" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| > can i stop all such scanning with iptables ?
|
| 1. If you dont need sshd, don't run it
|
| 2. Otherwise, use either hosts.allow (ssh is compiled with tcpwrappers,
|    generally) or iptables to restrict access to sshd to known and
|    trusted IPs.
|
| 3. If you are anyway running a secure sshd, and an IDS like snort,
|    forget it.  Portscans are a dime a dozen, most of them poking around
|    for stuff like old sendmails, sunrpc, ftp etc.
|
|    -srs
|
| --
| Suresh Ramasubramanian  <---->  mallet <at> efn dot org
| EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
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| LOST #155 -**< Sub : Line numbering your programs (#5) >**-
| Want a listing of your program with line numbers ?  vi clones
| on Linux can do it directly !!! In command mode of vim/ elvis
| or nvi, type: ':set number' (or, ':se nu')... and to turn off
| numbering during edit ':set nonumber' (or, ':se nonu').
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