Aaron Konstam: Kaushal Shriyan: > I am using TCP Wrappers, In the /etc/hosts.deny > vsftpd : ALL EXCEPT : localhost > but doesnot work for me I want to deny FTP Service to localhost Aaron Konstam: > Why not use hosts.deny for this, I think his rule should be: vsftpd : ALL EXCEPT LOCAL ALL : ALL : spawn (/bin/echo ATTACK from %a on %d | mail kaushalshriyan@xxxxxxxxx) Deny external access to the remote daemon. For better security, make the last ( 2 ) entry/s in hosts.allow. ALL : ALL : DENY ALL : DENY hosts.allow takes precedence over hosts.deny. My $0.02 Krack