iptables versus hosts denied

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

    In terms of performance and when a packet is dropped or denied, 
what's best to use?  iptables or hosts.deny ?  Let's assume for a moment 
here that one has a very long list of IP ranges that are being blocked, 
would using iptables to deny the ranges work better/faster than having 
hosts.deny block them?  Just wondering ...

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