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Date:      Sat, 3 Aug 1996 21:29:48 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
To:        flaq@synwork.com (Mike)
Cc:        rashid@rk.ios.com, jc@netview.net, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: I am under attack, need to restrict network
Message-ID:  <199608040229.VAA02669@horton.iaces.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960803154123.186A-100000@synwork.com> from "Mike" at Aug 3, 96 03:42:00 pm

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In a previous message, Mike said:
> 
> On Sat, 3 Aug 1996, Rashid  Karimov wrote:
> 
> > 		The same applies to FreeBSD ... be
> > 		sure to install tcp wrapper and wrap
> > 		services appropriately.
> > 
> > 		This is very weak protection,since
> > 		hackers will always be able to attack
> > 		you from different IPs from different
> > 		A/B/Cs :(
> 
> I'm going to ask a stupid question, but how do you wrap services?

After installing tcp wrapper (tcpd) put that in your inetd.conf file,
on all the lines. Ie.

ftp     stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/libexec/tcpd       ftpd -l
telnet  stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/libexec/tcpd    telnetd

etc.

Paul.




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