Re: [expert] /etc/hosts.deny ?

[Scott Taylor]

On Wed, 30 May 2001, Andreas [iso-8859-1] M�ller wrote:

> Hallo,
>
> I just have a dialup account and want to prevent all machines from the
> internet to connect to mine. As much as I understand it hosts.deny will do
> this. I have added the following line to /etc/hosts.deny
>
> ALL:ALL EXCEPT localhost:DENY

/etc/hosts.deny:
All: All: deny

/etc/hosts.allow
All: localhost: allow