>IIRC there were ways to do this via the hosts.* files (I believe it was
>hosts.allow).  I'm still confused as to why the functionality was put in
>hosts.allow, but I used it on my 1.3.3 box for a long while.  I've not
>used it under 1.4.x tho.

that's because it was in tcpd before libwrap was put into inetd.

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