Re: hosts.allow, Apache and others

On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 08:37:11PM -0500, garaged wrote: > tcpwrappers is, IMO, a quite deprecated tool, firewalls are reliable > and more adequate this days. I'm going by the usual security advice to use multiple layers of security. > > To answer your question, if apache is started by xinetd, h

Re: hosts.allow, Apache and others

tcpwrappers is, IMO, a quite deprecated tool, firewalls are reliable and more adequate this days. To answer your question, if apache is started by xinetd, host.* files are relevant, most distributions now dont bind apache to xinetd, i'm not even sure if it's convenient, I would think that it is no

hosts.allow, Apache and others

Are the hosts.{allow,deny} files relevant to Apache2? If so, what service name should I use? More generally, how do I find the answer to this question for an arbitrary program or service. READ.Debian for Apache2 doesn't mention tcpwrappers, and the Debian reference doesn't list these files as re