On Tue, 27 Jul 2021 at 17:17, Pete Biggs <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2021-07-27 at 16:43 -0400, H wrote:
> > > Running CentOS 7. I was under the impression - seemingly mistaken -
> > > that by adding a rule to /etc/hosts.deny such as ALL: aaa.bbb.ccc.*
> > > would ban all attempts from that network segment to connect to the
> > > server, ie before fail2ban would (eventually) ban connection
> > > attempts.
> >
> > This, however, does not seem correct and I could use a pointer to
> > correct my misunderstanding. How is hosts.deny used and what have I
> > missed?
>
> hosts.deny is only used by specific programs that use TCP wrappers. It
> is not a general "deny this host access".
>
> Also note that fail2ban operates on individual hosts, not subnets.
>
[I should have waited and read all my email before responding. Peter
covered parts I did not.]
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