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From: "Tim Jensen" <tlj@u.arizona.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Tcp_wrappers won't work!
Date: 19 Oct 1996 02:02:34 GMT
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I had the same problem until I actually read the Makefile.  By default the
tcp_wrapper will NOT look in /etc for the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files.
 I can't remember where it does look but it is easily changed by editing
the Makefile.

On a similar topic, I am have been unable to get the wrapper to perform an
identd lookup on the remote host, even with the RFC1413 option enabled in
the Makefile.  Are the results of the lookup included in /var/log/messages
when successful?

Thanks

-Tim

Neil J Long <long@njl2.> wrote in article <548avr$184@news.ox.ac.uk>...
> tcp_wrappers package added OK, copied tcpd to /usr/libexec, edited
> /etc/hosts.deny and allow, changed entries in inetd.conf - hup'd inetd 
> (even tried a reboot) and although inetd/tcpd logs connects it does
> not pay any attention to the deny/allow files.