On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 04:52:07 -0500, Gerard created an award-winning crop
circle <pqwdme8k5goo.1o43c2qqn2eg7$.dlg@40tude.net>, which when translated
into English means this:

> [...]
> There's a set of files, called hosts.allow and hosts.deny in the /etc
> directory that govern access from the outside world to services on your
> server.
> [...]

I thought that /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny are only used
by /usr/sbin/tcpd.

Unless sshd is started by tcpd, those hosts files probably don't matter.