On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 22:43 -0400, Doug Koobs wrote:
> 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?
Read this link:
http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?hosts_access+5
In particular, the Booby Traps portion.
The Logan
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