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I would appreciate help with the following. I would like to know the relationship between iptables and the file hosts.allow and hosts.deny.
Previously, I just used iptables and my files hosts.allow and hosts.deny were empty. If I put an entry in the hosts.allow file does it take precedence over the iptables?
They have some overlapping features and it's a good idea to use both as a means of failure protection. To answer your question though, iptables functions occur before tcp_wrappers (host.allow/deny) and therefore take 'precedence' over anything in hosts.allow/deny.
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