From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 8 20:33:26 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F37116A41F for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2005 20:33:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from paul.halliday@gmail.com) Received: from qproxy.gmail.com (qproxy.gmail.com [72.14.204.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9EC443D45 for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2005 20:33:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from paul.halliday@gmail.com) Received: by qproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id a39so825208qbd for ; Sat, 08 Oct 2005 13:33:25 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=B6qHX8C6k3g32qtjmtk3udIKTcuxTU836iCOrOYVjUX1iryGstaDYSJQdXs6pRLEm+x7GwmM45IYeBwnTgh8GfOwDugfIFmcmQ2skgwl2If2irO14z+Z/jWPe1fkXs8GJ4HaL36mQkk2E7McswE7QcBJ2nM08omgBIf3SaLglXE= Received: by 10.65.81.20 with SMTP id i20mr2241378qbl; Sat, 08 Oct 2005 13:09:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.154.4 with HTTP; Sat, 8 Oct 2005 13:09:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2dab70a30510081309u2b1a9e84i9d058b0cda9a731@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 17:09:10 -0300 From: Paul Halliday To: Chuck Robey In-Reply-To: <434821D3.7080409@chuckr.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <434821D3.7080409@chuckr.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hosts.allow X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 20:33:26 -0000 My guess, and this is a wild one, would be: All \All\, a. [OE. al, pl. alle, AS. eal, pl. ealle, Northumbrian alle, akin to D. & OHG. al, Ger. all, Icel. allr. Dan. al, Sw. all, Goth. alls; and perh. to Ir. and Gael. uile, W. oll.] 1. The whole quantity, extent, duration, amount, quality, or degree of; the whole; the whole number of; any whatever; every; as, all the wheat; all the land; all the year; all the strength; all happiness; all abundance; loss of all power; beyond all doubt; you will see us all (or all of us). [1913 Webster] So, Service(s) : Host(s) : Action ALL(services(s)) : ALL (Hosts(s)) : Action On 10/8/05, Chuck Robey wrote: > I shouldn't write this while I'm frustrated. I just hope it doesn't > leak out, I know I tend to do that. > > I'm having trouble getting my mounts to work with my newly attached > Zaurus, to my trusty FreeBSD server. I have gotten past several > problems, began googling error messages, and hit the /etc/hosts.allow > file. Here I've hit a problem. The file, both the internals of it > (which is a mass of examples with nearly no explanations) and the man > page, are either circular definitions, or missing ones, grossly > missing. 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? > > Hmm, howcome security info, which is the most important, is always the > worst documented, and set up with the most complicated syntax? > > If you MUST use examples, they should only be used to illustrate items > that have explanations, they should never ever be used as the primary > explanation. I can't figure out how to use /etc/hosts.allow. I'm not > sure if it is, or is not, affecting my rpcbind. > > Well, you be the judge, did I let my frustration out of the bag this time= ? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= " > -- _________________ Paul Halliday http://pintumbler.com/ "Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie!" till you can find a rock."