Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 07:00:14 -0800 From: Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com> To: "Daniel A." <ldrada@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hosts.allow ? Message-ID: <441D71FE.2070003@chrismaness.com> In-Reply-To: <5ceb5d550603190128q5f3e46c3o84e4b45236df0883@mail.gmail.com> References: <441CA1F9.20301@chrismaness.com> <5ceb5d550603190128q5f3e46c3o84e4b45236df0883@mail.gmail.com>
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Daniel A. wrote: > On 3/19/06, Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com> wrote: > >> My denyhost script is doing it's job by adding: >> >> sshd: 62.149.232.105 : deny >> >> to the hosts.allow file, but I see that this host is still making >> attempts to get into my box. Is there a cron job or something that has >> to re-read the hosts.allow file before it the IP will be blocked? >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> > Offtopic, but > How did you set up denyhosts? Daemon? Cron? > > p.s. OK, I was able to get to work by just starting out with a blank hosts.allow. Everything is allowed by default, so when denyhosts adds a deny line to the file, it will deny access to that host. Also, sshd can't be started in rc.conf, it has to be started in inetd.conf. Make sure you do a /etc/rc.d/inetd restart after you make changes.
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