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...
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...
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