mount to NFS server failed

[sly]

Damian Menscher wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Jeff Vian wrote:
> 
>>> i followed the instructions from a book, and it said the /etc/hosts.deny
>>> should have:
>>>
>>> portmap: ALL
>>
>>
>> well DUH,  you are trying to set up portmap for use in hosts.allow, and
>> here it was denied.  Deny always takes precedence over allow so of
>> course it was failing.
> 
> 
> Please read man 5 hosts_access before posting incorrect information to 
> an archived list.  It doesn't help the person seeking help here, and 
> will confuse future googlers.

so let me understand this:
- 1st is deny
- 2nd is allow overriding the deny
is it correct? or i'm just confused.

> 
> Damian Menscher