[SLUG] hosts.allow syntax

From: Doug Koobs (dkoobs@dkoobs.com)
Date: Sun Apr 03 2005 - 22:43:31 EDT


I'm trying to figure out the syntax of hosts.allow and hosts.deny. I
read the man pages, and it seems that the syntax basically is:

deamon : host

But in the examples, the deamons are prefixed with "in." as in:

in.tftpd: LOCAL, .my.domain

What does the leading "in." indicate? Inbound? activated by inetd?
intolerable? Oh, I know, inadequate documentation! :)

Do I need to prefix every deamon with .in?

Doug

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