(linux)how do allow pings (and stuff)

[Richard Black <rblack@algorithmics.com>]

Hi all

I have too much security on my machine :-)

I want other machines on the network to be able to ping me (and later,
to be able to connect via sockets to a server on another machine on the
net work).

Currently, if I try and ping my machine from another host I get:

ping: socket: Permission denied

How do I change this?

I have tried adding lines like:

ALL: [machine ip]

to by hosts.allow but this has no effect.

thanks

Richard


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