On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Jerry Winegarden wrote:
>
> No! ALL: LOCAL in hosts.allow refers to machine named: "localhost"
> which is your own box (network log into yourself), not your whole subnet.
> That is, LOCAL is a synonym for "localhost" which is 127.0.0.1
> Also, I usually ALLOW access from all boxen on my subnet, since I myself
> may want to access my box from another box on that subnet.
>
LOCAL does not just refer to localhost. This is from "man hosts.allow":
LOCAL Matches any host whose name does not contain a dot character.
This can make a difference, depending on how you name hosts in
/etc/hosts.
Mikkel
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