On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 19:06:26 +0530, Jatin K <ssh.fedora at gmail.com> wrote: > what is the perfect way > > only host.allow or host.deny file > > > or only iptables ?? I don't think there is one. It depends how you want to manage your system. Personally, I like iptables, but using tcpwrappers is fine as well.