Hi, On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> > I have reason to belive that my computer is used as a > > relay host for spam. Walking through the logs, I found > > one ip number which has no ip name, but it connects the > > computer every hour or so and sends some mail. > > > > I want to block this address, but I have not succeeded in > > configuring the hosts.deny file correctly. This is what I have: > > > > hosts.allow: empty > > hosts.deny: > > ALL: 1.2.3.4 > > ALL: PARANOID > > I believe that the hosts.deny and hosts.allow file only control services > that are launched by the inetd daemon. It's possible that postfix starts > on it's own and won't be affected by any changes to these files. > > Just in case it is, do you kill and restart inetd ?? You need to for the > changes to take effect. > yes, I tried that. I noticed that telnet access has been denied, but not smtp access. Thanks. > Regards > Hall > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
