Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:44:11 +0100 From: "Daniel A." <ldrada@gmail.com> To: gerard@seibercom.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hosts.allow ? Message-ID: <5ceb5d550603190744l740502edv3504b61ec03cf84f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200603191032.21530.gerard@seibercom.net> References: <441CA1F9.20301@chrismaness.com> <5ceb5d550603190128q5f3e46c3o84e4b45236df0883@mail.gmail.com> <441D71FE.2070003@chrismaness.com> <200603191032.21530.gerard@seibercom.net>
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On 3/19/06, Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> wrote: > Chris Maness wrote: > > > Daniel A. wrote: > > > On 3/19/06, Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com> wrote: > > >> My denyhost script is doing it's job by adding: > > >> > > >> sshd: 62.149.232.105 : deny > > >> > > >> to the hosts.allow file, but I see that this host is still making > > >> attempts to get into my box. Is there a cron job or something > > >> that has to re-read the hosts.allow file before it the IP will be > > >> blocked? _______________________________________________ > > >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > > Offtopic, but > > > How did you set up denyhosts? Daemon? Cron? > > > > p.s. > > > > OK, I was able to get to work by just starting out with a blank > > hosts.allow. Everything is allowed by default, so when denyhosts > > adds a deny line to the file, it will deny access to that host. > > > > Also, sshd can't be started in rc.conf, it has to be started in > > inetd.conf. Make sure you do a /etc/rc.d/inetd restart after you > > make changes. > > Just out of curiosity, why can 'sshd' not be started from the > '/etc/rc.conf' file? > > -- > Gerard Seibert > gerard@seibercom.net > > PGP: http://www.seibercom.net/sig/gerard.asc > > > Yeah, why is that exactly? I can. Care to explain?
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