I have tried:

ALL: 80.
ALL:ALLENY

my Ip start with 80.
so ALL: 80. would allow the class A

if I do
hosts.deny
ALL:ALL

and hosts.allow

ALL:ALL


it will accept any connection meaning that the hosts.allow is read last.

I have also tried

ALL: localhost
ALL: .localhost
ALL: 127.0.0.1

and I tried to connect to my machine but it didn't accept.

It must be a syntax error

if anyone interested someone send me the man page
http://www.rt.com/man/hosts_access.5.html

I will have a look there to see if I can find what is wrong.


I will get this **** working today!