-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 24 May 2006 12:29:01 -0700 "jdow" <jdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As was pointed out apache has its own built in version of hosts.deny > etc. Firewalls are still a fine first layer of defense. If you do not > care if people from say parts of China and Korea, for example, use your > system you can block them at the firewall rather than wait until they > are inside and tickling apache. If you ALSO place them on the Apache > access denial list you have to remember this, hey - log your change > activities - good practice anyway, but you get a second level of > protection from locations that are troublesome. If you can find an > elastic band level of security use it, too. > > (And unless it has changed since I last played with Apache you CAN > run it as an xinetd toy. But it's not recommended for rather obvious > reasons. {^_-}) > > {^_^} > Thank you to all who replied!! That helped a lot!! I did find a few netmask cals online that are what I am looking for. Thank you again. Will -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEdMszfw3TK8jhZrsRAk2YAJ90neNxL6P/TIsAxpzYBr8elb9V7QCdHAx0 FoD7Jo65EiHr4AmLo8RFx9k= =ULzC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----