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Cant ping new mandrake 10 box - but can ping from it
also, read that line out a few times. all:all except 127.0.0.1 deny it reads out: deny all traffic except from localhost (127.0.0.1, the machine itself) there are some programs that don't follow this rule, like squid, httpd, and ftpd (that I know of) ssh is one of those programs that follows...- me262
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- Forum: Linux (server)
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Cant ping new mandrake 10 box - but can ping from it
I'm having some similar problem in mandrake 10.1 I've commented this line in hosts.deny, and allows me to use ssh. # all:all except 127.0.0.1 deny The problem I'm having, is that something keeps reinserting this line into my hosts.deny all:all except 127.0.0.1 deny it's very frustrating, as...- me262
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- Forum: Linux (server)
