Leave /etc/hosts.deny with all:all
then have in /etc/hosts.allow all:192.168.0.
192.168.0. obviously being your subnet if that won't work (it should)
have in /etc/hosts.allow
all:192.168.0.1
all:192.168.0.2
etc....
Dan
At 02:13 PM 3/16/98 +0000, 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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> -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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