hosts.allow ?

[Chris Maness]

Daniel A. wrote:
> On 3/19/06, Chris Maness <chris at chrismaness.com> 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.  Is there a cron job or something that has
>> to re-read the hosts.allow file before it the IP will be blocked?
>> _______________________________________________
>> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
>>
>>     
> Offtopic, but
> How did you set up denyhosts? Daemon? Cron?
>
>   
p.s.

OK, I was able to get to work by just starting out with a blank 
hosts.allow.  Everything is allowed by default, so when denyhosts adds a 
deny line to the file, it will deny access to that host.

Also, sshd can't be started in rc.conf, it has to be started in 
inetd.conf.  Make sure you do a /etc/rc.d/inetd restart after you make 
changes.