Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 20:48:36 -0500 From: "David J. Kanter" <david.kanter@mindspring.com> To: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: hosts.allow question Message-ID: <20000819204835.A13028@localhost.localdomain>
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I'm a bit confused with whether hosts.allow is applicable to a desktop computer, with PPP dialup, which doesn't allow things like telnet, ftp, etc. My hosts.allow file is two lines: ALL : localhost 127.0.0.1 : allow ALL : ALL : deny Two things that make me a little confused: I have inetd turned off, so is the hosts.allow needed (although sendmail is running in daemon mode)? And I don't have tcp wrappers installed, so is hosts.allow needed? It seems that with things like hosts.allow, inetd, and firewalls there are a million ways to control access to the same things, and I'm a little bewildered. -- David Kanter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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