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Re: Am I missing something about portsentry?


From: dr john halewood <john () sumotech com>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 18:11:30 +0100

On Thursday 22 May 2003 5:38 am, Vlad G. wrote:
I tried deleting the route, but nothing seems to be working. Any
suggestions?

Check /etc/hosts.deny and also any firewalling rules. Portsentry will dump 
attacking machines in the former by default and into the firewall rules if 
you've got that configured as well.

cheers
john

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