Gary Petersen <garyp1492.giggly+news@wiggly.earthlink.above.ne t> writes:

> 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.

No. They're used by libwrap, which tends to be linked directly into daemons
these days at configure-time, while I remember tcpd as more of an inetd
thing.

Oh, and portmapper uses them too.

~Tim
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