From: luke@techfreak.org
To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SSH allow only form selected IP'
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 09:59:36 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1216.66.189.78.234.1092581976.squirrel@srv01.scriptgods.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <411F5E12.6000608@lovedthanlost.net>
I'm definitely not a firewall expert, but isn't it also possible to
get around
IPchains using IP spoofing? From what I know ipchains is only
protected against spoofing by using source address verification.
Or am I way off?
Luke
> luke@techfreak.org wrote:
>
>>One very effective way that I have found to do this is to use the
'hosts.allow' file located at /etc/hosts.allow
> hosts.allow is NOT secure. You can easily spoof the IP addresses
contained within it. You should not use it.
>
> Regards
>
> James
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-15 14:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-14 11:52 Re[2]: SSH allow only form selected IP' luke
2004-08-15 12:58 ` James Turnbull
2004-08-15 13:54 ` Re[2]: " Kev
2004-08-15 14:59 ` luke [this message]
2004-08-16 11:23 ` James Turnbull
2004-08-16 13:37 ` Re[2]: " Kev
2004-08-16 16:30 ` VPN question Tony Gogoi
2004-08-16 17:29 ` Adam Lang
2004-08-16 18:50 ` Tony Gogoi
2004-08-16 18:59 ` Adam Lang
2004-08-18 10:46 ` SSH allow only form selected IP' Stephen Samuel
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2004-08-14 10:34 Kev
2004-08-14 10:54 ` James Turnbull
2004-08-14 11:18 ` Re[2]: " Kev
2004-08-14 11:42 ` James Turnbull
2004-08-14 11:46 ` James Turnbull
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