Hi Duncan, Your configuration should be as follows:-- host.deny imapd : ALL EXCEPT 127.0.0.1 sshd : ALL EXCEPT 10.10.10.2 smtp : ALL EXCEPT 10.10.10.3 and leave the host.allow blank. Or the better case..u should use iptables....default firewaal for fedora... go through the following link to know iptable configuration : http://linux.ctyme.com/man/man1240.htm Nick B D u n c a n <drack@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hie all, Fedora Core 2 ,squirrelmail ,sendmail how do i securely insure my hosts.alllow and deny is correctly configured.At the moment its configured as such: hosts.allow ALLOW : imapd : 127.0.0.1 ALLOW : sshd : 10.10.10.2 ALLOW : smtp : 10.10.10.3 hosts.deny ALL : ALL i just want to allow access to imapd,sshd and my smarthost Will this kill the DNS service etc .Suggestions welcome .Firewall is too costly -------------------------------------------------------------- Duncan Rack -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
