From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 19 4:19:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hq1.tyfon.net (hq1.tyfon.net [213.212.29.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 709D537B6F7 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 04:19:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dl@tyfon.net) Received: from enigmatic (dhcp1.intranet.tyfon.net [192.168.1.20]) by hq1.tyfon.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 0D5921C5CA; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:19:30 +0200 (CEST) From: "Dan Larsson" To: "Roland Jesse" , Subject: RE: hosts.allow: deny set but ping requests come through Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:19:14 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <0v66r6gcej.fsf@cs.uni-magdeburg.de> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG | -----Original Message----- | From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG | [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Roland Jesse | Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 1:04 PM | To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org | Subject: hosts.allow: deny set but ping requests come through | | | The first two lines of my /etc/hosts.allow are as follows: | | ALL : PARANOID : RFC931 20 : deny | ALL : general.URZ.Uni-Magdeburg.DE 141.44.2.1 : deny These have nothing to do with icmp restrictions, use firewall rules to limit icmp: 'man 8 ipfw' | | As I understand it that should not happen as the above deny rule | doesn't allow *any* access from this general machine. My machine is | -stable as of early June: Wrong, it restricts access to for example inetd based services. For more info: 'man 5 hosts_options' | Regards ------------ Dan Larsson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message