From: Michael Treacy (delphi91 at domain hotmail.com)
Date: Sun 05 Sep 1999 - 23:37:41 IST
>From: Brendan Kehoe <brendan at domain zen.org>
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>To: Mark <nvm1 at domain yahoo.com>, "Michael Treacy" <delphi91 at domain hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [ILUG] Networked linux boxes
>Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 22:50:17 +0100 (IST)
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>Mark wrote me saying:
> > With Redhat Linux...
> >
> > I would usually place the network I.d for all of the
> > boxes in the /etc/hosts.allow file...
> >
> > say network 192.168.67.0
> > You can simply add all hosts by using this syntax.
> >
> > /etc/hosts.allow 192.168.67.0-254
> > Or If your using Dns (bind) you can palce the domain
> > name in there. Assuming that all hosts are from the
> > same domain...
>
>Indeed, Mark's right. Mike, I wanted to send this on just in case you have
>more than the two machines you mentioned, in which case doing the whole
>subnet
>would certainly work better. (I was also in heavy-security mode at the
>time I
>wrote my response, thus having the default deny and the rest. Whatever
>works
>best for you. :-) )
>
>Thanks Mark!
>
>B
>
>--
>Brendan Kehoe
>
>Web page: http://www.zen.org/~brendan/
Brendan,
Thanks a million for your help. I got it working. I only have two boxes to
connect (at the moment!). I have them talking to each other, but for some
weird reson, they lose the connection in the middle of an FTP session - see
a previous post of mine.
Mike
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