On Tuesday 24 April 2001 04:39, Mark Weaver wrote:
> Charles,
>
> It does deny access to anyone to your machine provided that their
> machine's ip address is entered into the hosts.deny file. OR, if you have
> a line in there such as:
>
> ALL:ALL
>
> That single line denies access to all ser
Charles,
It does deny access to anyone to your machine provided that their
machine's ip address is entered into the hosts.deny file. OR, if you have
a line in there such as:
ALL:ALL
That single line denies access to all services on your machine. Notice
here the operative word is "denies
> Mark,
>
> Please straighen me out:
>
> Mark Weaver wrote:
> >
> > The hosts.deny file is a file that Portsentry uses to keep track of ip
> > addresses of machines that have scanned your machine's ports and tried to
> > gain access to your machine.
>
> ai4a says that his hosts.deny file contains
Mark,
Please straighen me out:
Mark Weaver wrote:
>
> The hosts.deny file is a file that Portsentry uses to keep track of ip
> addresses of machines that have scanned your machine's ports and tried to
> gain access to your machine.
ai4a says that his hosts.deny file contains "ALL: ALL: DENY".
The hosts.deny file is a file that Portsentry uses to keep track of ip
addresses of machines that have scanned your machine's ports and tried to
gain access to your machine.
if this file is empty it either means that portsentry hasn't detected
anyone scanning your machine, or that you haven't con
Hi:
I use my system as a simple desktop machine & connect to the internet
through a ppp line & a 56K modem. Does this mean that I connect to the
internet and no one needs to connect to me??
In my hosts.deny file I have:
ALL: ALL: DENY
In my hosts.allow file I have nothing:
# there are no entri
