Re: [vps-mail] Question about Sendmail/Spammers

["Bennett Lanford" <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, April 6, 2005 6:14 pm, Abigail Marshall said:
>
> --- Bennett Lanford <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> (If you are using the default hosts.allow in ~/etc/,
>> be sure to comment
>> out the line "ALL : ALL : allow" that appears at the
>> beginning of the
>> file.
>
> Whenever I comment out that line, I lock myself out
> from all services, and then have to embarrass myself
> by calling tech support and having them restore my old
> file. At least I have the sense to make a backup
> before doing this. There are a bunch of little scripts
> after the "ALL : ALL : allow" and obviously one of
> them is what does it. I'm not yet inclined to ruin
> some tech support person's day by testing things out
> to figure which one it is.
>
> I don't worry about it -- I just put all my own little
> directives ABOVE that section -- working from the top
> of the file instead of the bottom. Kind of like a
> blog,  newest entries at the top.

Right you are! Yes, that "ALL : ALL : allow" line still needs to be in the
file (as you mentioned), but *after* the lines you add that block smtp,
etc. (--and before all the sample junk entries at the end of the file, I
suppose). I hope my earlier post didn't create problems for anyone. I'm
glad you caught my bad!


-- 
Bennett Lanford <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

There are 10 kinds of people: those that understand binary and those that
don't.
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