* Kevin Reed <news@???> [20020123 04:31]: wrote:
> I have tcp_wrappers on my Solaris 8 box (Sparc) with the language
> extensions enabled. As such, I use a single hosts.allow file (no
> host.deny) with the format of:
>
> service : who : allow|deny
>
> I have Exim 3.34 compiled with TCP Wrappers as well....
>
> I have noticed however, that despite entries in the file to indicate
> that I want to block specific IP's, they don't appear to be phased by
> it at all.
>
> exim : xx.xx.xx.xx : deny
>
> Using tcpdmatch exim xx.xx.xx.xx
>
> shows denied like it should, but it appears that Exim doesn't see it.
>
> I've even restarted exim thinking maybe it wants to reread the file??
>
> Not knowing how Exim internally deals with this, the only idea I
> could come up with was it wanted the info in a hosts.deny file??
>
> Anyone else have this issue...
I don't know how it works on (Slow)aris but in FreeBSD I'd have to HUP
inetd after making changes to hosts.allow - my point being you don't
have to restart a daemon just because you've mod the wrappers file, no?
-Wash
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