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From: jeremy@vcn.com (Jeremy Malli)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Allowing Telnet Access to Local Machines Only
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 03:47:50 -0700
Organization: Visionary Communications
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Thanks, got it working...

In article <4hoaab$fi5@jaxnet.jaxnet.com>, krenaut@jax.jaxnet.com (Karl
Renaut) wrote:

> 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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Jeremy Malli - Visionary Communications, Inc.
jeremy@vcn.com

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