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Stephen,
Thanks, I did do some digging in the manual before I posted the issue, I
guess I didn't dig far enough. Now that I am aware of the issue I can
work within those parameters to get what I want done. Thanks again!
--Ed
>Ed,
> A quick check in the RHEL3 Reference Guide, Section 16.2.1.3,
>Portmap and TCP Wrappers, says
>
>"When creating access control rules for portmap, do not use hostnames as
>portmap's implementation of TCP wrappers does not support host look ups.
>For this reason, only use IP addresses or the keyword ALL when specifying
>hosts is in hosts.allow or hosts.deny."
>
>I guess that means LOCAL and @(protected) don't function for portmap
>wrappering.
>
>Regards,
> Stephen
>
>References:
>http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/ref-guide/s1
-tcpwrappers-access.html
>
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