From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 19 18:48:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blount.mail.mindspring.net (blount.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96BE737B424 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 18:48:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (user-33qt8jm.dialup.mindspring.com [199.174.162.118]) by blount.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA14000 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 21:48:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from david@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA13209 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 20:48:40 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from david) Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 20:48:36 -0500 From: "David J. Kanter" To: FreeBSD questions Subject: hosts.allow question Message-ID: <20000819204835.A13028@localhost.localdomain> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD questions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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