Re: [CentOS] Does anyone use tcp wrappers (hosts.allow/hosts.deny) anymore?

Matthew Miller wrote:

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 06:14:56PM -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:

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Fail2ban is one piece of software which interfaces with tcp wrappers. v0.9.0 just out http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Yes, and know for sure people use that -- I do, for example. But I use it to manipulate IP tables, which is more secure and less fragile than the hosts.deny action (it's always a bit scary when configuration files are edited by a program!). Because it is actively maintained upstream, there's even support for new things like firewalld.

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Yup - that's what we do here, use fail2ban to manipulate iptables.

mark