On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, William Ono wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > > having ALL: ALL in hosts.deny and ALL: 192.168.1.* in hosts.allow worked > > perfectly. hosts.allow was supposed to override hosts.deny. When did this > > change? > > You want "ALL: 192.168.1." without the star at the end. > > The behaviour you mention is AFAIK still the correct one.
Ah, yes. I have now restored my hosts.deny to its former meanness, and removed the star at the end of 192.168.1., as well as add 127.0.0. without which "telnet localhost" didn't work. > hth. It did, thanks. Hugo van der Merwe
