On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 02:58:27PM -0500, STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) wrote: <snip> > > ------------------ start ---------------------------- > # > # hosts.allow This file describes the names of the hosts which are > # allowed to use the local INET services, as decided > # by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server. > # > desoto > ALL: 123.123.36.72 > ALL: 123.123.36.177 > ALL: 127.0.0.1 > ALL: 123.123.22.* > --------------------end -------------------------- > > The above hosts.allow file allows a node named desoto and > two nodes known by their IP address in. Also the loopback > is allowed so you can talk to yourself. Desoto can be > in your /etc/hosts. It also allows any node on the 123.123.22 > subnet in. > The desoto line in the above file list confuses me. I was unaware that the only entry on a line can be a host name and I see no such line format documented in the hosts.allow man page. Is this something new or what? -- ======================================================================= The fashionable drawing rooms of London have always been happy to accept outsiders -- if only on their own, albeit undemanding terms. That is to say, artists, so long as they are not too talented, men of humble birth, so long as they have since amassed several million pounds, and socialists so long as they are Tories. -- Christopher Booker ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
