Sharing hosts.deny

[Tapas Mishra]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Michael <mmorse757 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have a bunch of entries in my hosts file with the 127.0.0.1 line
> added.  I have always seen the hosts.deny and hosts.allow files  but
> never know how to use them.  When I google hosts.deny it says something
> about blocking a range of IP addresses.  Is it safe to assume that using
> hosts.deny is more effective/better than just adding entries to the
> hosts file?
>
hosts.deny and hosts are different files for different purposes.