Re: [cobalt-users] IRC Traffic

[jens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jens Kristian Søgaard)]

Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> You mean that you don't want people to be able to run IRC clients from your
> Raq3?

> Well you can't block that port from the interface (AFAIK), but you could add
> a command in the hosts.deny file to deny all traffic on that port.

You're wrong. 

Adding entries to the hosts.deny file would only block _incoming_
connections that are processed by the inetd program.

As IRC clients use _outgoing_ connections, and do not use the inetd
program, then your trick wouldn't help at all.

To block outgoing connections I would recommend either reconfiguring
your firewall, or by using ipchains/ipfwadm on your server.


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