hosts.deny vs iptables

[jdow]

From: "CodeHeads" <codeheads at gmail.com>
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> Hello all,
> I searched the archives and google and did not find what i was looking for.
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> This is my setup:
> Web Server with virtual hosts; FC4; IPTables and SELinux Running
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> My questions is which is better, IPTables or hosts.deny???
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> I read some where, cannot remember, that hosts.deny does not read httpd
> requests??
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> I am mostly concerned in blocking IP ranges with either.
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> Any thoughts?

Belt, please meet suspenders. Suspenders, please meet Belt. Now that
you have been introduced please work together.

In other words, is there any reason you cannot use both? I use both.

{^_-}