Re: [cobalt-users] Performance / hosts.deny

["Andrew Mace" <andy.mace@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi People,
How Would I deny Port 443 for everything except localhost in hosts.deny

Regards
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: <flash22@xxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Performance / hosts.deny


> On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Manuel Schmitt wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > does anybody know if the performance of the TCP/IP stack gets worse when
> > using the hosts.deny file with about 30-40 lines?
>
> Entries in the hosts file are only used when opening connections, via
> inetd, they have no effect in the tcp stack, only a slight delay is added
> to the startup of an application ...
>
> (There are sometimes subtle side effects to this tho, eg if someone
> attacks your machine by opening lots and lots of inbound connections, then
> having a lot of entries will slow it's response down, but we're talking
> hundreds, not dozens, they are only 4 bytes each ;)
>
> gsh
>
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