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Re: ftp/telnet fails since upgrade



On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, William Ono wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
> 
> > having ALL: ALL in hosts.deny and ALL: 192.168.1.* in hosts.allow worked
> > perfectly. hosts.allow was supposed to override hosts.deny. When did this
> > change?
> 
> You want "ALL: 192.168.1." without the star at the end.
> 
> The behaviour you mention is AFAIK still the correct one.

Ah, yes. I have now restored my hosts.deny to its former meanness, and
removed the star at the end of 192.168.1., as well as add 127.0.0. without
which "telnet localhost" didn't work.

> hth.

It did, thanks.
Hugo van der Merwe


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