Re: ALL: PARANOID from /etc/hosts.deny Should be Commented by default

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Subject: Re: ALL: PARANOID from /etc/hosts.deny Should be Commented by default
From: Nils Jeppe <nils@pandemonium.de>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 23:05:45 +0200 (CEST)
Message-id: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.30.0104182304300.13998-100000@tangramayne.pandemonium.de>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] tslk84iq6cs.fsf@sweet-transvestite.mit.edu>

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).



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