I have tried this it did not work and the Co-Lo people are convinced that sshd and sendmail need to be run out of inetd.conf for this to work
As i said i am used to BSDI and the Finnish SSHD Also here they are using the combined hosts.allow/deny with the deny inside which i never liked Thank you for your help on this Garrett --- On Fri, 12/5/08, Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: IPFW Firewall Question To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, December 5, 2008, 6:02 AM On Friday 05 December 2008 01:26:04 G magicman wrote: > Why because of the following: > > 1. Hosts.access on freebsd works on the Application Layer instead of the > Network Layer Therefore Hosts.allow/hosts.deny no longer works the way i > want and i do not feel like running Sendmail and sshd out of Inetd which > appearantly is the only way to be able to use hosts.allow/deny You're right about the application layer, but not about the rest. From sshd(8): /etc/hosts.allow /etc/hosts.deny Access controls that should be enforced by tcp-wrappers are defined here. Further details are described in hosts_access(5). > 2. Next openssh doesnot have an AllowHosts directive like the Finnish one > does it only has an AllowUsers directive so i need to protect the system > from DDOS attacks Again, see above. > and Hacking I already tried to block things using the > Sendmail Access file but all that did was choak up the server with moronic > shit. And i want to be able to use my sftp program but it opens random > ports which can not be controlled so i need the Clearaddresses to be able > to see all ports. For the firewall, pf user here, so others should help. ;) -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"