Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

I installed and configured TCP Wrapper on AIX 5.3 and all went well except the /etc/hosts.allow won't work with wild card "*" or "?" for the client hostname list. If I have following in /etc/hosts.allow, everything works as expected(ftp access restricted to host01 and 02):
ftpd : host01.domain.com host02.domain.com
However it does not work if I try:
ftpd : host*.domain.com
or
ftpd : host0?.domain.com
or
ftpd : *.domain.com

TCP Wrapper I installed is come from 5.3 AIX expansion pack. I tried tcp_wrappers-7.6.1.0 from bullfreeware.com, same problem. I also tried it on redhat linux, the wildcards works fine.
Any ideas?

Thanks
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

It has been a while since I worked with the TCP wrappers; but try compiling it with the extensions turned on.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

I look into the source code and believe the wildcards are not supported. Some linux version of TCP Wrapper do have this feature by enhancing the code. Such example on Redhat documented in - tcp_wrappers-7.6-bug17847.patch.
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Originally posted by: hwyguy

Try taking out the * in host.allow .For example, this works without issue on my AIX machines:

ftpd: .domain.com
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