[TriLUG] Fedora Core Firewall configurator and /etc/hosts.allow (deny)

Tommy Williams talen.quickblade at gmail.com
Tue Oct 26 17:33:35 EDT 2004


Am I correct in assuming that the GUI configurator that runs during
install for the firewall setup puts its informatino in the
/etc/hosts.allow and hosts.deny files, or are these files just another
level of security to protect my box from unwanted connections?

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