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disabling and enabling services



Folk,

Some services listed in /etc/services, might never be intended
to operate on a specific machine.  bootps and finger are likely 
examples.  

In interest of security, is there any benefit in commenting out 
unused services? 

Other services, such as telnet, are needed in my LAN but 
should be blocked to all other systems.  Are the settings 
in /etc/hosts.allow and hosts.deny sufficient for this?

Thanks to everyone who responded to my previous question 
about "two protocols on one port".  Seems that Martin Marcher
has coined a new term, "protocol multiplexer".

Thanks,                 ... Peter E.



 http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/



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