[cobalt-users] [RaQ3i] hosts.deny

[Theodore Jones <theoj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey folks,

when I add and IP to the "hosts.deny" file under /etc,

    ALL:  209.74.20.34

then do a:

    /etc/rc.d/init.d/inet reload

then watch my /home/log/httpd/error file (tail -f), i don't seem to see
that this IP/person is blocked from making random guesses at my CGI
files.... the only thing protecting me at this point is that I don't
name my cgi-bin the obvious "cgi-bin" or anything else easy to guess...
but I'd like to just block the punk, because well, I'm vindictive agains
bozos that waste my server's resources with thousands of failed
requests....

Any suggestions as to what's going on here.  Doesn't "hosts.deny" take
care of any TCP/IP connection to the server?... and no, I don't want to
set up a firewall machine or ipchains and all that just yet at this
point....

Thanks much!,

~ Theo