Re: [hylafax-users] hosts.hfaxd question

["Jeff Wiegley, Ph.D." <jeff@cyte.com>]

I used 10.0.0 instead of 10.0.0.0 because my understanding  is that
these entries are regular expression matches. Thus
10.0.0 will match any 10.0.0.XXX address but 10.0.0.0 will only
match the network address.

I am kind of confused about it is 10.0.0 and not 10\.0\.0 though.
The file starts out with 127.0.0 instead of 127\.0\.0 so I followed
the example when I made my entry.

Maybe IP addresses are recognized and aren't regular expressions?

- Jeff

On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 03:02, Robert Herzog wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks for answering my question. But is this not 10.0.0.0 rather than 
> 10.0.0 as you state. Indeed, if your local network is 10.0.0.0, then 
> putting this network IP in the file could open the service to all 
> locals. In my case, the local network is 192.168.0.0, so do you think I 
> put 192.168.0 or 192.168.0.0 ?
> But basically, this does not solve my problem, as what I need most (I 
> already have local service, having put each individual local IP address 
> in the file) is fax service for users on completely different, Internet 
> connected networks. These paople get a dynamic IP address, so it is 
> impossible to provide irelevant info about them, whenever they got 
> connected.
> Can someone help me further down this line ?
> Herzog
> 
> Jeff Wiegley, Ph.D. wrote:
> 
> >I avoided setting up individual user accounts by simply putting
> >
> >10.0.0
> >
> >in the hosts.hfaxd file.  This allows any of the windows clients
> >on my internal office network to use the fax system without a
> >password. Security against the whole world using the system is
> >also guaranteed by my netfilter firewall only allowing 4559 traffic
> >from the trusted network interface.
> >
> >- Jeff
> >
> >On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 08:54, Robert Herzog wrote:
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>I have set up a functioning Hylafax server on a SuSE 7.3 Linux server. 
> >>It accepts calls rom local PC's  to send out (using on the PC's the WHFC 
> >>client) and replies to incoming faxes, properly saving them in the 
> >>/var/spool/fax/ receive folder.
> >>I want to set up this hylafax server to accept to serve as fax server 
> >>for members of my community (a non profit sports organisation). As they 
> >>have different Internet providers, I think I cannot escape setting the 
> >>fax server open for calls coming from anywhere. Can you tell me what my 
> >>hosts.hfaxd file should contain ? I am confused by the regular 
> >>expression examples given in the how-to file.
> >>
> >>Moreover, should I create an account for each potential caller ? And 
> >>should these be regular UNIX accounts ?
> >>
> >>Thanks for any help.
> >>
> >>Robert
> >>
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> >>
> >>
> >>
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> Robert HERZOG
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