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RE: Hosts.all/Hosts.deny vs. a firewall?]



On 27-Aug-2000 Phil Brutsche wrote:
>> Additionally, I noticed that smtp is not called like ftp is with the
>> /usr/sbin/tcpd first, it's just called /usr/sbin/exim....does this
>> mean that hosts.deny would not protect that port?
> 
> Likely not.
> 
>> (getting a little confused here)

Exim can be compiled to use /etc/hosts.deny|accept

--
Andrew



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