Sendmail ignores hosts.allow

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Maxim Khitrov
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 6:14 PM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Sendmail ignores hosts.allow
> 
> however, I had a feeling that it was jail-related. But what about the
> hosts.allow problem? I can run a firewall, of course, but hosts.allow
> seems like a more efficient way of doing the same thing. I've already
> got it configured and working with sshd, so I see no reason why
> sendmail doesn't want to work the same way.
> 

You said earlier that your sendmail was compiled with tcp wrapper
support.  How exactly did you go about doing this and installing it?

In any case, since your not going to be using sendmail much, if your
that paranoid I would suggest you simply disable it and run it out
of inetd.  Then use the usual tcpd method (in the man page) to run
inetd.

Ted