On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:05:04 +0900 John Summerfield <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I don't see that tcpwrappers does a lot for you in this case than you > can also do with iptables. Sure it does: It achieves exactly what I want, and doesn't require yet another daemon to be running with yet another obscure command language to learn :-). (The hosts.allow syntax is only about 1/10th as obscure as the iptables commands).