Doug Koobs said:
> 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! :)
Doug,
IIRC, in.ftpd and in.tftpd are variations of the standard and trivial ftp
daemons typically driven by inetd. In other words, this is the actual name
of the daemon. The 'in.' is not necessary at all. So for example, sshd
would look like this:
sshd: 192.169.0.0/24, .foo.bar
Matt
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