Re: [cobalt-users] PortSentry .. hosts.deny file

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 06 June 2002 07:38 am, SysAdmin wrote:
> Hello List..
>
> If some IPs gets blocked for abusing certain port, will this disable that
> particular IP address to all ports on the sever i.e. browsing, ftp, pop3
> email.  I asked this because i found the format of blocked IPs in the
> hosts.deny file as below:
>
> ALL: 111.22.33.444
>
> Does "ALL" means that all ports are blocked for that IP
>

Blocks all inet processes / tcpwraper
ftp
ssh
telnet

Browsing will still work

If you have portsentry setup to use ipchains, then it will block everything, 
this is a seperate block, nothing to do with hosts.deny

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