Try
/etc/hosts.allow:
ALL: 127.
/etc/hosts.deny
ALL:ALL
Michael George wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> Even though I just have dial-up access to the net, I put "ALL: ALL" in my
> /etc/hosts.deny file to keep intruding processes out. However, this also
> keeps me from doing an rlogin or fetchmail from my machine back to my machine.
>
> Since I want to do this once in a while, I am looking for a way to loopback to
> this host and allow access. I have tried "ALL: ALL" in hosts.deny and then
> "ALL: LOCAL" in hosts.allow, but that doesn't help. Neither does "ALL:
> localhost <hostname> <hostname>.<domainname>" in the hosts.allow file. The
> only thing that seems to work for letting rlogin and fecthmail back to this
> host work is if I remove "ALL: ALL" from /etc/hosts.deny.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions for entries to put in those files to achieve at
> least remedial security for when I'm connected to the net, but still allow
> localhost net access to work?
>
> -Michael
>
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