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hosts.deny Maximum?
| Posted by SI-Chris, 08-04-2007, 05:56 PM |
| What are the maximum number of entries that can go in hosts.deny? Will the server bog down the more entries that are in there? How many is a safe, reasonable number?
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| Posted by Patrick, 08-04-2007, 05:57 PM |
| A better question is, what are you trying to do - exactly?
In some cases it may make sense to modify /etc/hosts.deny to include ALL:ALL and then add the IP ranges you require to /etc/hosts.allow ...
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| Posted by SI-Chris, 08-04-2007, 06:04 PM |
| Pat: ALL:ALL won't work for me, I need to block individual IPs.
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