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The default hosts.rules contains the following (I highlighted the related portions of it):

#       Default policy
#
#       POLICY  ACCEPT  CONNECTIONS_PER_IP
#       POLICY  DENY
#
#POLICY ACCEPT  2
## PLEASE REMOVE LINE BELOW
POLICY DENY

#   Classes
#
#   CLASS   CLASS_NAME  TOTAL_CONNECTIONS_PER_CLASS
CLASS   NORDIC  25
CLASS   ADMIN   -1

#       Rules
#
#       ACCEPT  I|H     IP|HOSTNAME     CLASS_NAME      CONNECTIONS_PER_IP
#       DENY    I|H     IP|HOSTNAME     LOG_STRING
#

ACCEPT  I 192.168.1.    ADMIN   -1
ACCEPT  I 127.0.0.      ADMIN   -1
ACCEPT  H .fi           NORDIC  2
ACCEPT  H .se           NORDIC  1
ACCEPT  H .no           NORDIC  1
DENY    I 192.168.      "Banned network address"
DENY    I 10.           "Banned network address"
DENY    H .tw           "Access from taiwan is prohibited"

The top portion labelled Default policy is the rule taken if there are no host/IP specific rules for the connecting client.

You're supposed to remove (or comment) the POLICY DENY rule and uncomment the one above it, POLICY ACCEPT 2.