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tcp_wrappers provides support for controlling access to tcp services normally specified by the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files. This may be done using tcpd, a wrapper service, or by linking the service providing daemon code to the libwrap library.

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hosts.allow, hosts.deny : One rule per service?

In quite a few places (some old, some recent) it's stated that the tcp-wrappers configuration files /etc/hosts.allow, /etc/hosts.deny allow only one rule per service. This looks wrong to me, I write ...
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