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From: krenaut@jax.jaxnet.com (Karl Renaut)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Allowing Telnet Access to Local Machines Only
Date: 8 Mar 1996 03:42:03 GMT
Organization: Southeast Network Services, Inc.
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References: <jeremy-0703961323330001@quantum.vcn.com>
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Do you want to prevent people from telneting out? Or do you want to
block telnet connections that originate from outside your domain?
If you want the latter then you can use the hosts.allow and hosts.deny
files. Check the man pages for hosts_access(5)
Jeremy Malli (jeremy@vcn.com) wrote:
: Anyone know of a way to disallow Telnet access outside of the local
: domain. I've heard some stuff about a hosts.deny file, but can't find
: anything about it in Practical UNIX Security, or in the man pages.
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