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Date:      Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:44:11 +0100
From:      "Daniel A." <ldrada@gmail.com>
To:        gerard@seibercom.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: hosts.allow ?
Message-ID:  <5ceb5d550603190744l740502edv3504b61ec03cf84f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200603191032.21530.gerard@seibercom.net>
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On 3/19/06, Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> wrote:
> Chris Maness wrote:
>
> > 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? _______________________________________________
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> > >
> > > 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.
>
> Just out of curiosity, why can 'sshd' not be started from the
> '/etc/rc.conf' file?
>
> --
> Gerard Seibert
> gerard@seibercom.net
>
> PGP: http://www.seibercom.net/sig/gerard.asc
>
>
>
Yeah, why is that exactly?
I can. Care to explain?



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