Problems with security files, not connecting

[Robert Lubbers]

Hello to everyone on this list.

I have compiled RWhoisD on FreeBSD 5.3, and am having a lot of problems getting connecting to the daemon.  I am assuming it is some problem with the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files.  

Looking at this I can see that it would be a very good thing to be able to deny access to the RwhoisD server, because  it looks like you can add and delete records remotely.  However, I can't even attach to the server from the local host.

Is there some interaction with DNS that needs to be set up in order to allow for the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files to work properly?  Also, I don't have tcpwrapper installed on this machine.  Is that necessary?

Robert Lubbers


Here are my files:

RWHOISD.CONF
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root-dir: /data0/local/rwhois
bin-path: bin
auth-area-file: /data0/local/rwhois/rwhoisd.auth_area
directive-file: /data0/local/rwhois/rwhoisd.dir
x-directive-file: rwhoisd.x.dir
max-hits-ceiling: 60
register-spool:register_spool
punt-file: rwhoisd.root
local-host: tweek.mylocation.mydomain.net
local-port: 4321
security-allow: /data0/local/rwhois/rwhoisd.allow
security-deny: /data0/local/rwhois/rwhoisd.deny
deadman-time: 100
server-type: standalone
userid: rwhois
pid-file: rwhoisd.pid
server-contact: robert.lubbers at mydomain.net
use-syslog: NO
default-log-file: rwhoisd.log
warn-log-file:      rwhois.info.log
notice-log-file:    rwhois.info.log
info-log-file:      rwhois.info.log
debug-log-file:     rwhois.info.log
verbosity: 7 # info

RWHOISD.ALLOW
********************************************************
xfer: ALL
rwhoisd:ALL

RWHOISD.DENY
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x-date: ALL