[TriLUG] Fedora Core Firewall configurator and /etc/hosts.allow (deny)

[Brian Daniels]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 05:33:35PM -0400, Tommy Williams wrote:
> Am I correct in assuming that the GUI configurator that runs during
> install for the firewall setup puts its informatino in the
> /etc/hosts.allow and hosts.deny files, or are these files just another
> level of security to protect my box from unwanted connections?
> 

hosts.allow/deny are used for protecting services on a per-service basis.  
The configurator modifies /etc/sysconfig/iptables.

--Brian


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