On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 03:57:46PM -0600, tod. wrote:
| incidently i got my information on tcp_wrapper's from a linux journal article on
| the program which you can read here:
|
| http://www.linuxjournal.com/issue40/2180.html
The article seems reasonably good, though it might make sense for the
author to at least mention things that tcp_wrappers can't/doesn't
protect ...
| It seems pretty clear to me in the article that /etc/hosts.{allow|deny} are
| files that configure
| tcp_wrappers and not a firewall/IP filter.
Right.
| Since I get a specific change in behavior from changes in those
| files, I assumed what I needed to configure correctly was
| tcp_wrappers.
What specific change did you see? It shouldn't have been in Licq. I
don't see any reason why Licq would use tcp_wrappers, and if it
doesn't specifically use it then /etc/hosts.{allow|deny} should have
zero effect on it.
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