Re: ALL: PARANOID from /etc/hosts.deny Should be Commented by default
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:05:45PM +0200, Nils Jeppe wrote:
> On 18 Apr 2001, Sam Hartman wrote:
>
> > If you believe it is useful, please provide specific examples that
> > show how it protects common system configurations against real
> > attacks.
>
> There are idiots that try the reverse dns lookup trick to access a
> network. It happened at my work (unsucessfully, naturally).
I hope it failed because you are enforcing IP-based access control, and not
because you have PARANOID in your hosts.allow.
--Adam
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Adam McKenna <adam@debian.org> <adam@flounder.net>
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