PLUG-discuss Digest, Vol 61, Issue 28

[Alex Dean]

On Jul 29, 2010, at 4:20 AM, Ed wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:15 PM, gm5729 <gm5729 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> it is a good idea to put yourself in hosts.allow before adding
>>> anything to hosts.deny.
>>>
>> That is what /etc/hosts is for if IIRC. I have a domain name I could
>> put it in there, but most of the time I just see a digitized IP
>> address that is dynamic.
>
> /etc/hosts is for name lookup before DNS gets running.
> hosts.allow and hosts.deny perform an ACL function and have a
> different file format - see the man page. or your file bellow
> you want to witelist yourself (machine/range you work from) in
> hosts.allow so you don't lock yourself out of your remote server - and
> don't have to walk down the hall and root around in the closet..  ;)

Or sheepishly ask the guy in the data center to do it for you....  
(been there.)

alex