Can httpd or snmpd accesses be restricted using a hosts.deny and hosts.allow combination?
-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Winegarden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 7:26 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: hosts.allow
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Mike Burger wrote:
> It is if you have a hosts.deny that says:
>
> ALL: ALL
>
> On 4 Jul 2002, Jay Daniels wrote:
>
> >
> > In the following hosts.allow, is the LOCAL necessary?
> >
> > ALL: LOCAL
> > ALL: 192.168.1.
The idea is: Deny access to ALL services from ALL machines,
then add back in only those machines (or subnets) that you want.
LOCAL means your own machine (localhost.localdomain, LOCAL, 127.0.0.1)
Some things on your machine will break if you don't allow localhost
access to itself.
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