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Date:      Sat, 8 Oct 2005 21:31:17 +0100
From:      "Rob MacGregor" <freebsd.macgregor@blueyonder.co.uk>
To:        <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: hosts.allow
Message-ID:  <003a01c5cc47$3c2b4460$0100a8c0@macgregor>
In-Reply-To: <434821D3.7080409@chuckr.org>

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On Saturday, October 08, 2005 8:45 PM, Chuck Robey <> unleashed the infinite
monkeys and produced:

> One glaring example, in the man page, the single most commonly
> used token is "ALL" but even though it's used more than any other token,
> it's not defined, even slightly.  What does ALL mean?

Quoting the "hosts_access" man page:

ALL    The universal wildcard, always matches.

> I can't figure out how to use /etc/hosts.allow.  I'm not
> sure if it is, or is not, affecting my rpcbind.

The man page for rpcbind suggests it should, and you can find out (again, from
the man page):

-l      Turn on libwrap connection logging.

-- 
 Rob | Oh my God! They killed init! You bastards!




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