On Monday 13 June 2005 09:39, Taylor, Grant wrote:
> I'm not sure if /etc/hosts.deny will prevent packets from entering
> IPTables or not as I thought that the file was read by user space
> daemons as a list of IPs to never talk to, not necissarly to the IP
> table to deny access to.
No, yes. The user space daemon is tcpd(8), but other services might be
linked against the library too, so they would read the hosts_access(5)
files without consulting tcpd.
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