[rescue] TCP Wrappers on Solaris question...

[Phil Stracchino]

Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366 wrote:
> I have a strange TCP Wrappers question.
> 
> I want to start to create a "blacklist" of hosts that should never be allowed to connect to my Solaris box.  At the same time, anything not on the blacklist, should be allowed through.
> 
> What is the proper incanation in the hosts.allow and hosts.deny to make this happen?  The examples I see would work for say, 5 IPs (like "ALLOW EXCEPT 1.2.3.4") but would quickly become cumbersome when dealing with say 50 IPs.
> 
> Is there a way to reference an external list of IPs so that I can just maintain a simple list and point TCP Wrappers to it?
> 
> "The man pages .... they do nothing!" in this case.

Since not everything uses TCPwrappers, I'd say this is a job for a firewall.


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