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[Terry D. Cudney]

Hi,

	You specify the services/machines that are allowed in the /etc/hosts.allow file. This is read before the hosts.deny file is read. the first match of a machine IP is taken. ie if ALL: ALL is specified in /etc/hosts.deny then only the services/machines that ae specified in hosts.allow will be granted, all other access is disallowed.

	If no services/machines are specified in hosts.deny, then that would appear to NOT be your problem.

	The expanation within the /hosts.[allow, | deny] is quite good.

You wrote:

-=> well, i think acording to this file, all machines are allowed access into
-=> the box.
-=> no ips or machines are restricted in the hosts.deny file.
-=> do you have to specifically give access to each machine that is trying to
-=> connect to the machine?
-=> At 04:29 PM 4/11/2001 -0400, you wrote:
-=> >Hi,
-=> >
-=> >	This could well be a mail routing problem, in which case, I'm no expert.
-=> But when you say that no one can telnet or ftp into the machine it may be
-=> because you have no machines specified in your /etc/hosts.allow file. Check
-=> the /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files for what you are
-=> allowing/denying for connectivity.
-=> >
-=> >HTH,
-=> >
-=> >		--terry
-=> >
-=> >Name:	Terry D. Cudney
-=> >Phone:	(905)735-6127
-=> >E-mail:	terry at wasagacottage.com
-=> >WWW:	www.wasagacottage.com
-=> >
-=> >
-=> >
-=> >Q:	What's tiny and yellow and very, very, dangerous?
-=> >A:	A canary with the super-user password.
-=> >
-=> >
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		--terry

Name:	Terry D. Cudney
Phone:	(905)735-6127
E-mail:	terry at wasagacottage.com
WWW:	www.wasagacottage.com



Q:	What's tiny and yellow and very, very, dangerous?
A:	A canary with the super-user password.