Re: [arch-dev-public] dropping tcp_wrapper support

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On Saturday 16 July 2011 12:06:34 Peggy Wilkins wrote:
> The annoucement suggests that a major reason for dropping support is
> that it is "confusing" to end users.  An easy solution to that is to
> make a default hosts.allow file that says "ALL : ALL : ALLOW"  out of
> the box.  Then those of use wanting to simply restrict access (useful
> in many scenarios) can change that default as needed.
Technically this is what we did: without tcp_wrappers every input is accepted 
now.

You've to setup iptables to deny all input and accept only what you need. I 
never used iptables before, but now I find its syntax really simple, and 
powerful.

-- 
Andrea


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