FW: [clug] SSH attack]

Tony and Robyn Lewis beakysnugger at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Jul 26 06:37:05 GMT 2005


Steve Walsh wrote:

> but then if a machine is on
>the big bad net and not running TCP wrapper ...I don't want to thing about
>that.
>  
>

I'll bite.

I know TCP wrappers is good for limiting hosts, and limiting services.  
Sounds like a well-tuned firewall will do this but better.

Apart from redundancy (in case you bork your firewall), what does TCP 
wrappers give you?

Tony





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