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[SI-Chris]

What are the maximum number of entries that can go in hosts.deny? Will the server bog down the more entries that are in there? How many is a safe, reasonable number?

[Patrick]

A better question is, what are you trying to do - exactly?

In some cases it may make sense to modify /etc/hosts.deny to include ALL:ALL and then add the IP ranges you require to /etc/hosts.allow ...

[SI-Chris]

Pat: ALL:ALL won't work for me, I need to block individual IPs.