Re: host allow/deny

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

At 04:00 AM 12/7/99 -0600, Robert Canary wrote:
>Okay this just isn't working very well.
>In my host.allow I have
>ALL:.mydomain.net
>ALL:.workplace.com
>In my host.deny I have
>ALL:ALL except .mydomain.net

I think you have the concept correct, this should work (in fact, the except
shouldn't have any effect).  I've had trouble too and I think it has to do
with DNS and reverse-lookups.  If you use IP's in hosts.allow, I bet it
works.  Maybe someone can explain DNS better.

-Alan
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