AllowHosts / DenyHosts

Markus Friedl markus.friedl at informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Wed Feb 28 23:46:24 EST 2001


On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:57:11AM +0100, Andreas Vetter wrote:
> Tcp-wrappers are invoked by inetd, so when there is a DoS-attack against
> the inetd (usually this is done port by port): game over.

tcp-wrappers are not at all related to inetd.
they only can be used with inetd. you don't
need inetd if you want to use sshd + tcpwrappers
since sshd uses libwrap directly.

> If ssh can
> handle AllowHosts/DenyHosts itself, I don't need the (buggy) inetd.





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