I didn't know you could stop apache traffic with hosts.deny! I have always used the ip acls in the statements. Before that I used the access.conf file. I guess that because those controls existed I assumed that tcp wrappers didn't work. I'll have to play with that, thanks! Adrian ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Toft" To: Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 8:40 PM Subject: Re: tcpwrappers > What makes you think Apache is not? Whe I was at the .com in LA, we had > a script that analyzed Apache log files, and dropped the abuser's IP > netowrk into /etc/host.deny for 48 hours. That locked him (and a chunk > of his ISP) out so he couldn't redial and continue the attack. >