FW: [clug] SSH attack

[Tony and Robyn Lewis]

For list posterity, Steve's reply (when I replied, I forgot to include 
the clug address)

Tony

Steve Walsh wrote:

>This page explains it best
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>http://www.stanford.edu/group/itss-ccs/security/unix/tcpwrappers.html
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tony and Robyn Lewis [mailto:beakysnugger at yahoo.co.uk]
>Sent: Tuesday, 26 July 2005 4:31 PM
>To: steve at nerdvana.org.au
>Subject: Re: FW: [clug] SSH attack
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>Steve Walsh wrote:
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>>but then if a machine is on
>>the big bad net and not running TCP wrapper ...I don't want to thing about
>>that.
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>I'll bite.
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>I know TCP wrappers is good for limiting hosts, and limiting services.  
>Sounds like a well-tuned firewall will do this but better.
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>Apart from redundancy (in case you bork your firewall), what does TCP 
>wrappers give you?
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>Tony
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