A question about host...

[Rob Lahaye]

Thomas Spreng wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:51:38AM -0400, Payne wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I am wanting to use host.allow and host.deny to make my box more secure. 
>>Is there a site that can explain how to use them.
> 
> 
> hosts.deny is depricated just use hosts.allow.

Hmmm, "man hosts_access" still talks happily about hosts.deny.
Nowhere mentioning that it's depricated!
Are the man pages here 'depricated' as well? Needs an update?
Should the author of the man page be notified?

R.