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Re: using tcp.wrappers on echo server?



On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 11:24:39AM +1000, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> have a customer who wants to use our echo server from two addresses only.
> 
> have specified them in hosts.allow and hosts.deny as follows:
> 
> /etc/hosts.allow
> 
> echo: 203.6.6.6/255.255.255.255
> 
> /etc/hosts.deny
> 
> echo: ALL
> 
> should it be echo? or echo.d? or echod? for the other services you specify
> the name of the binary, but what's the name of the binary in this case?

echo is an internal service of inetd, thus it cannot be wrapped with
tcpwrappers (AFAIK)  

probably your best bet is to setup an ipchains rule

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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