From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 18 15: 3:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.nyct.net (bsd4.nyct.net [216.139.128.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBEB037BB7B for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:03:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from efutch@nyct.net) Received: from bsd1.nyct.net (efutch@bsd1.nyct.net [216.139.128.3]) by mail.nyct.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA62773 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:03:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from efutch@nyct.net) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:03:51 -0400 (EDT) From: "Eric D. Futch" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: hosts.allow strangeness? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is confusing the hell out of me :) I don't think I'm missing anything here, but even with "ALL : ALL : deny" in the hosts.allow I can still telnet into this FreeBSD 4.1-RC box. # cat /etc/inetd.conf | grep telnet telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/telnetd telnetd -l -h telnet stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/libexec/telnetd telnetd # cat /etc/hosts.allow ALL : ALL : deny (from another computer) # telnet www.xxx.yyy.zzz Trying aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd.... Connected to aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd Escape character is '^]'. login: ^C telnet> quit Feel free to pass the point hat if I really missed something trivial here. -- Eric Futch New York Connect.Net, Ltd. efutch@nyct.net Technical Support Staff http://www.nyct.net (212) 293-2620 "Bringing New York The Internet Access It Deserves" KNYC: 18-Jul-00 16:51 EDT: 87.1 F (30.6 C), partly cloudy, humidity 38% To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message