Re: [TCLUG:19894] SSH Working. Thanks!

[Jason J <jasonj@innominatus.com>]

All I have in my hosts.deny is ALL: ALL.
Then I let only the things I want through with hosts.allow.

I was under the impression this was the most secure way to do it.



Andy Zbikowski wrote:

> Hmmm, betcha you have a ALL:Parinoid entry in /etc/hosts.deny. With that
> option, you won't be able to access just about everything if your ip and
> hostname don't matchup/resolve. The soultion is, fix your host name. =)
>
> You could add a ALL: IP Range of your ISP to hosts.allow, or if your on
> static IP add a entry to /etc/hosts on the server machine. If your going
> from an internal host to an internal host, get bind working to resolve
> names for your internal network or add an entry in /etc/hosts for every
> machine.
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