From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 8 10:58:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from magellan.palisadesys.com (magellan.palisadesys.com [192.188.162.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C16237B6FC for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 10:55:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ghelmer@localhost) by magellan.palisadesys.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f08Itfc16674; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 12:55:41 -0600 Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 12:55:41 -0600 (CST) From: Guy Helmer To: Usov Alexander Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/networks & /etc/hosts.allow In-Reply-To: <200101081756.TAA06295@fatlady.ukr.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Usov Alexander wrote: > Hi everybody! > > Can anybody explain me what I should put it that files > and when they are used? "man 5 hosts_access 5 hosts_options" for /etc/hosts.allow, which inetd and most other network daemons consult to determine whether a client has the authorization to use a service, based on the client's IP address and/or host name. "man 5 networks" for /etc/networks, which associates network numbers with names on the local system. Guy -- Guy Helmer, Ph.D. Sr. Software Engineer, Palisade Systems --- ghelmer@palisadesys.com http://www.palisadesys.com/~ghelmer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message