Hello,

I'm trying to use hosts.deny to block people who try to gain access to my Ensim server. The hosts.deny file contents is here:

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#
# hosts.deny This file describes the names of the hosts which are
# *not* allowed to use the local INET services, as decided
# by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server.
#
# The portmap line is redundant, but it is left to remind you that
# the new secure portmap uses hosts.deny and hosts.allow. In particular
# you should know that NFS uses portmap!

ALL: 195.39.77.72
ALL: 203.197.163.88
ALL: 209.197.234.4
ALL: 211.72.32.14
ALL: 212.63.71.100
ALL: 216.69.173.150
ALL: 217.160.164.50
ALL: 220.130.245.95
ALL: 60.248.115.160
ALL: 80.53.95.206
ALL: 213.237.119.141
ALL: 217.26.52.16
ALL: 72.14.76.3
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The error message I get in in Logwatch is here:
warning: /etc/hosts.deny, line 22: missing newline or line too long

What am I doing wrong?

Greetings:

Did you check what you have between lines 20 and 24 inclusive?

BTW, you can vi right to a line number such as


vi +22 /etc/hosts.deny


Thank you.

unless I'm mistaken,
I don't think you are supposed to have a space after the : on your lines
should look like this