[pkg-firebird-general] Re: fb2-ss 1.5.3.4870-8: "connection rejected for" problem

[Kai Bäsler]

>> May be the reason for rejection is indeed in /etc/hosts.allow and/or
>> /etc/hosts.deny?
>
> maybe, but i'm completely unfamiliar with them.  can you tell me what
> to put here?

the manpage can be accessed with 'man 5 hosts_access'.

In short:

If both /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny are empty (comment  
lines, beginning with '#' not counted), then every access to the host  
is allowed.

If /etc/hosts.deny contains 'ALL: ALL', then every access to the host  
is denied.

If /etc/hosts.deny contains 'ALL: ALL', and /etc/hosts.allow contains  
'sshd: 192.168.0.0/16', then you can connect to the host via ssh if  
you come from the given ip-address-range. Every other access is denied.


And so on, I think you get it. One more thing: If you have 'ALL:  
PARANOID' in your /etc/hosts.deny, then you can't connect from a host  
with broken dnsname.


> Also, i work with my IBexpert with many Yaffil DBs, local and remote,
> so my local firewall configured for that.


Is it possible to turn the firewall completely off for one test? Just  
to make sure...

Kai