Using tcp wrappers prevents you from having to do an apache restart
(reload didn't exist back then, even so I don't know what happens to
existing connections).

George


Adrian Mink wrote:
> 
> I didn't know you could stop apache traffic with hosts.deny! I have always
> used the ip acls
> in the <Dir></Dir> 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" <george@georgetoft.com>
> To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> 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.
> >
> <snip>
> 
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