On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Burke, Thomas G. wrote:

> go to /etc/inetd.conf
> 
> Comment out lines for
> #echo   stream  tcp     nowait  root    internal
> #echo   dgram   udp     wait    root    internal
> 
> save it.
> 
> then:
> 
> "killall -HUP inetd"
> 
> then edit hosts.deny and add the line:
> 
> 7:ALL
> 
> 
> (port 7 is the echo port - ALL means noone is allowed to use it through
> tcpwrappers)...
> 
> 
> 
> Alternately, hosts.deny can just say ALL:ALL
> then hosts.allow can be <port>:<machine> that are allowed to be used/use...
> 

This doesn't seem to work at all.  I believ the only way to do it must be
using ipchains, but even in that case you must be really careful because
it tends to break other useful services.  


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