On Saturday 22 April 2006 15:41, Eben King wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Eben King wrote:
> > Isn't there any way to add a port by number (not service name) to
> > hosts.deny? How about if I define tcp/81 as my_http in /etc/services?
>
> Found a way to block him. RingTFM, I found this gem:
>
> HOSTS_ACCESS(5)
> ...
> In the following text, daemon is the process name of a network daemon
> process, ...
>
> which is the basic idea of hosts.{allow,deny}. No apparent relation to
> /etc/services . Process names _generally_ are the same as service names
> (modulo in.* and *d), but they don't have to be. So I just added "thttpd :
> 208.181.115.2" to /etc/hosts.deny, and haven't heard from him since about
> 2:30 pm on 13 April.
I still prefer using the firewall as it's a cleaner cut. It's the first line
of defense. hosts is a second line which it does not hurt to do too.
--Steve Szmidt
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