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From: Jack Bowling <jbinpg@shaw.ca>
To: netfilter@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: hosts.deny
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2002 16:51:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0GYW00K53KXH59@l-daemon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020707230435.FXCG2755.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@there>

** Reply to message from Antony Stone <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk> on Mon, 08 Jul 2002 00:04:34 +0100


> On Sunday 07 July 2002 11:54 pm, Dennis Cardinale wrote:
> 
> > When running a netfilter firewall, is there any reason to continue using
> > the hosts.deny and hosts.allow files, or is this just superfluous?
> 
> hosts.allow can still be useful to specify a command to run when a connection 
> comes in (eg to provide some special logging ?), but these files don't add 
> any security to a decently configured netfilter setup.

Beg to differ. /etc/hosts.deny allows access tuning of services that are set wide open on the firewall, ssh being a prime example.

jb

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Jack Bowling
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-07 23:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-07 22:54 hosts.deny Dennis Cardinale
2002-07-07 23:04 ` hosts.deny Antony Stone
2002-07-07 23:51   ` Jack Bowling [this message]
2002-07-07 23:59     ` hosts.deny Antony Stone
2002-07-08  1:50       ` hosts.deny Jack Bowling
2002-07-08 13:09     ` hosts.deny Ian C. Sison
2002-07-08 12:07 ` hosts.deny Matthew Hellman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-07-07 23:03 hosts.deny George Vieira
2002-07-07 23:20 ` hosts.deny Martin Tomasek
2002-07-07 23:24 hosts.deny George Vieira
2002-07-07 23:29 ` hosts.deny Antony Stone
2002-07-07 23:33 ` hosts.deny Ed Street
2002-07-07 23:38   ` hosts.deny Antony Stone
2002-07-07 23:48     ` hosts.deny Ed Street
2002-07-07 23:57       ` hosts.deny Antony Stone
2002-07-08  0:01         ` hosts.deny Ed Street
2002-07-08  0:11           ` hosts.deny Antony Stone
2002-07-08  2:27             ` hosts.deny Ed Street
2002-07-08  2:33               ` hosts.deny Antony Stone
2002-07-08  2:35                 ` hosts.deny Ed Street
2002-07-07 23:36 hosts.deny George Vieira
2002-07-07 23:43 ` hosts.deny Antony Stone
2002-07-07 23:49   ` hosts.deny Ed Street
2002-07-07 23:55     ` hosts.deny Antony Stone
2002-07-08  0:14       ` hosts.deny Martin Tomasek
2002-07-08  0:22         ` hosts.deny Antony Stone
2002-07-07 23:58 hosts.deny George Vieira

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