search for: a0abcdef

...at 172.20.0.13 : ALLOW rpc.mountd : ALL at 172.20.0.13 : ALLOW rpc.statd : ALL at 172.20.0.13 : ALLOW and all combinations of variations of these lines for the network, and for other IP addresses. (When this is the case, the remote machine searches every ASCII file from 01-00-00-0a-0b-0c and from A0ABCDEF (eg.) to A, before finally settling on the file 'default'. This takes 30 seconds when hosts.allow is set to "all all all all", but takes about 1 second when hosts.allow only allows portmap, mountd, etc. etc. selectively. Why? But that's beside the point.) -The remote machine...