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Elshan
Asked: 2018-12-14 21:30:15 +0800 CST

linux hosts.deny ALL EXCEPT not working

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I have added this line to hosts.deny file /etc/hosts.deny to allow only access to our apache server from selected address but it does not work for me. any suggestion where I am wrong?

ALL EXCEPT: 192.168.3.169
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  1. Best Answer

    I suspect you've got the exception the wrong side of the colon, that is to say, in the daemon_list half of the entry, not the client_list half. Try

    ALL:  ALL EXCEPT 192.168.3.169

    or to make this apply only to the web server (and assuming that apache consults these files, which I'm not sure is a given)

    httpd: ALL EXCEPT 192.168.3.169
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