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Charles Wilson wrote:
>> 2) In some recent release the default hosts.allow has been modified to
>>
>> ALL : PARANOID : deny
>> sshd: ALL
>>
> If there is a mismatch, then (a) there is a DNS misconfiguration, or (b)
> somebody is trying to spoof/hack you.  In your case, I'd guess DNS
> misconfiguration.

I see. I am doing some internal dns trickery. Thanks.

On the chmod 0 /etc/hosts* issue, is it's presence on this list 
sufficient for getting it logged and hopefully on someones radar screen?
I've seen this on 3 different fresh installs now.

Mike


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