Hi ! I start my pop-server popper over the inetd with the tcpwrapper and want to deny every connection except the local network. I know about all the other possibilities but now I want to know how exactly the wrapper works. I wanted tested it by denying everything; I tried following in hosts.deny; pop2: ALL pop3: ALL popper: ALL pop2: ALL: DENY pop3: ALL: DENY and so on. but nothing seems to work. I still can connect to popper. I wrap the connection definitly through the tcpd. Syntaxerrors in hosts.deny are mentioned in the syslog if there are some and a pop-connections comes in. I deleted hosts.allow. No file in ~ that could overwrite hosts.deny. Why is the connections accepted ? Thx. Matthias Compositiv EDV- und Kommunikationslösungen, PC-Service Matthias Krawen Peiffersweg 9 22307 Hamburg Tel: 040 / 611 673 - 40 EMail: info@compositiv.de Fax: 040 / 611 673 - 41 http://www.compositiv.de