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



On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 02:14:12AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> This is wrong. If someone installs, say, sshd, telnetd, apache,
> fingerd, identd, a web server, sendmail, and a whole host of other
> software, they can and will expect it to be accessible from the local
> network. Additionally, generally speaking, people who don't want
> such things accessible externally are, generally, better off just not
> installing them in the first place.  bash: Fmt: command not found
> 
> ALL: PARANOID is there because tcp wrapper logs are rendered meaningless
> without it (it'll just report the hostname, not the IP). There are

This is incorrect.  It will log the IP.  I've tested this.

--Adam

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Adam McKenna  <adam@debian.org>  <adam@flounder.net>



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