Re: [cobalt-users] Help?

[jens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jens Kristian Søgaard)]

Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> > Is there a way to tell the box to ignore this ip?  I already added it to
> > hosts.deny but I think that is just for apache.

> Did you add it to all ports?  The hosts.deny file is for all services--the
> computer can completely ignore all traffic from a host in the deny file.

You're wrong. The "hosts.deny" file is _not_ for all services. It only
affects services handled by the inetd daemon.

This does not include DNS (bind), Apache, Sendmail, etc.

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Jens Kristian Søgaard, Mermaid Consulting I/S,
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