hosts.deny vs iptables

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Wed May 24 15:42:02 UTC 2006


On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 22:54:34 -0700,
  jdow <jdow at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> In other words, is there any reason you cannot use both? I use both.

Complexity, performance.
Those aren't big hurdles, but for cases where tcpwrappers provides little
benefit, it may not be worth it.




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