From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 19 00:12:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D2AD16A400 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 00:12:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@chrismaness.com) Received: from ns1.internetinsite.com (ns1.internetinsite.com [208.179.97.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FBBF43D49 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 00:12:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@chrismaness.com) Received: from [IPv6:::1] (localhost.internetinsite.com [IPv6:::1]) by ns1.internetinsite.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2J0Cghu003311 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 16:12:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@chrismaness.com) Message-ID: <441CA1F9.20301@chrismaness.com> Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 16:12:41 -0800 From: Chris Maness User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: hosts.allow ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 00:12:43 -0000 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?