Re: need help configuring hosts.deny
Hi,
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> > I have reason to belive that my computer is used as a
> > relay host for spam. Walking through the logs, I found
> > one ip number which has no ip name, but it connects the
> > computer every hour or so and sends some mail.
> >
> > I want to block this address, but I have not succeeded in
> > configuring the hosts.deny file correctly. This is what I have:
> >
> > hosts.allow: empty
> > hosts.deny:
> > ALL: 1.2.3.4
> > ALL: PARANOID
>
> I believe that the hosts.deny and hosts.allow file only control services
> that are launched by the inetd daemon. It's possible that postfix starts
> on it's own and won't be affected by any changes to these files.
>
> Just in case it is, do you kill and restart inetd ?? You need to for the
> changes to take effect.
>
yes, I tried that. I noticed that telnet access has been denied, but not
smtp access.
Thanks.
> Regards
> Hall
>
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