What happens to the service request received by TCP Wrappers if the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files do not permit connection?

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What happens to the service request received by TCP Wrappers if the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files do not permit connection?

Drop the packet and log a message
Ignore the packet and continue with the next request
Recheck the files for connection 2 more times
Forward the request to the requested service and log a warning

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