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Nandy
10-09-2000, 12:00 AM
Do i need to edit those files too to complete my firewall? How do i acomplish that? I have 3 pc inside the firewall with static ip's.

Nandy

Craig McPherson
10-09-2000, 12:14 AM
No. Not if you're using a firewall.

Put ALL:ALL in your hosts.allow, and in your hosts.deny, either leave it blank, or put ALL:PARANOID.

Remember: hosts.allow and hosts.deny only affect services that run through the tcpd wrapper program, so they'er inherantly less useful than a firewall.