On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 05:30:20PM -0400, dman wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:57:40PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote:
> | The box I'm trying to connect from is 192.168.1.1.
> | And I don't think these files affect sshd. On the firewall I have 
> ALL:PARANOID
> | for hosts.deny and nothing in hosts.allow, 
> 
> That means you are denying all incoming access to the system (to
> services that check hosts.allow and hosts.deny).

Uh, no ... that means you will deny access to all hosts whose PTR
records don't resolve to A records.
 
Since he probably hasn't bothered to set up DNS for his RFC1918
network, this is the problem.  Comment out that line.

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