hosts.allow ?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 05:24:40PM -0800, Chris Maness wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 04:12:41PM -0800, Chris Maness wrote:
> >  
> >>My denyhost script is doing it's job by adding:
> >>
> >>sshd: 62.149.232.105 : deny
> >>
> >>to the hosts.allow file, but I see that this host is still making 
> >>attempts to get into my box.
> >>    
> >
> >Where do you see this (i.e. logged by what)?  hosts.allow doesn't
> >block the IP from connecting to the port, it blocks the application
> >that listens on the port from allowing this IP to authenticate.
> >e.g. your firewall may still log the connection.
> >
> >  
> p.s. I tried a test from another one of my host by adding a line just 
> like the one above and it still allows me to login.

Sounds like something else is wrong with your hosts.allow then.

Kris

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