[techtalk] Hello from a Newbie!

[Paul Ragogna]

Hello all....

I have just signed up for this list today, so I thought I should say
hello and tell you a little about myself.

I have just finnished my Chemistry degree and I am working as a research
assistant at Brock University in St. Catharines.  Soon I will be headed
out to Halifax to do some graduate work. (or be a prof's slave how ever
you want to look at it)  Anyway, I have just been using linux for the past
year and I feel like I have barely started climbing the learning curve.
I have to admit that I have never taken a single computer course and I
know a minimal amount about how computers REALLY work.  I started using
linux because I am too poor to buy software from Bill Gates.  It has been
a great learning experience and I have come to really appreciate the open
source concept.

I have to say as a newbie to the linux community it is  difficult to find
a mailing list where people actually provide each other with useful
(non-condasending) advice...but everyone seems really helpful here...so
thank you!  On other lists I have been hesitant to ask questions for fear
of getting a strip torn out of me for asking too basic a question...not to
mention I don't usually understand what people suggest I do.

****Now for my Query****

I would like to restrict telnet access to my computer to only a few IP
addresses.  In order to do this I edited the hosts.deny fill with ALL:ALL,
and the hosts.allow file with the IP adresses which I wanted to allow
access.  Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work.   Is there another way
to restrict access?   If there is how do I do it?

Thank you for anything you can offer.

P.S.  Sorry about the length of my posting.

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Paul Ragogna				Phone: (905)688-5550 ext. 3410
Dept. of Chemistry			e-mail: paul at esr.labs.brocku.ca
Brock University, 500 Glenridge Ave.
St. Catharines, ON, L2S 3A1
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