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Re: fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed



On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote:

> tcp_wrappers are a wonderful little security thingy. They control who (by
> IP) is allowed to connect to the various services installed on your
> computer. (As long as they are handled through inetd, right gurus?) You must
> have them installed, since this thing fixed it. :)

There are some deamons, which are not started from inetd (e.g. sshd),
which respect the /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny...

Martin

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