From owner-freebsd-security Wed Feb 11 21:41:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA06093 for security-outgoing; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 21:41:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA06078 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 21:41:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from softweyr@xmission.com) Received: from xmission.com [166.70.2.38] by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 1.73 #4) id 0y2rOx-000107-00; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 22:41:37 -0700 Message-ID: <34E2927E.FEC72ABF@xmission.com> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 23:11:11 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Hoffman CC: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: satan-1.1.1 References: <34DF6026.5199AD15@bouldernews.infi.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Mark Hoffman wrote: > I have installed FreeBSD 2.2.5 with Perl5, and I've installed > Satan-1.1.1. I have set the dont_use_nslookup variable to 1. Yet, when I > start up Satan, I still get the message that I need to set that variable > to one. I'm using a Toshiba Satellite Pro over a PPP link to check the > outside of one of my firewalls. Any help? Do you need to remove "bind" from /etc/host.conf? This may be telling the FreeBSD resolver routines to use bind even though you've told Satan not to. > I'm trying desperately to use use FreeBSD for all of my security > auditing and reports, and this is the only snag I've run into. No good deed goes unpunished. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message