Editing /etc/hosts

Konstantin Ryabitsev yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed Apr 28 17:23:01 2004


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Andrew wrote:
> My question is: Shouldnt it goes in /etc/hosts.deny instead of
> /etc/hosts ??????? hmm??

No, hosts.deny and hosts.allow are entirely different from hosts. They 
are a part of tcp wrappers, not resolver.

Regards,
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Konstantin ("Icon") Ryabitsev
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