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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie
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Subject: Re: misc/13474: Maximum Number of IPs Permitted in the .../etc/hosts.allow file 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 31 Aug 1999 09:54:37 +0100."
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On Tue, 31 Aug 1999 09:54:37 +0100, dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie wrote:

> I think the tcp wrappers code may have a maximum line length, and rejects
> connections if the max line lenght is exceded, to be on the paranoid side.

Yep, it's 2048 chars. But If this were the case, I'd expect the error
message "missing newline or line too long" to be showing up in syslog
messages.

My money's on tcpd or linkage. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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