Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 01:11:12 +0200 (CEST) From: bts@iae.nl (MB) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Double reverse lookup: OFF !!!! Message-ID: <20001014231112.1F55C7E7E@iaehv.iae.nl> In-Reply-To: <20001014155254.A25121@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> from "Crist J . Clark" at "Oct 14, 2000 3:52:54 pm"
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host.allow does have:
ALL:ALL:allow
So I'm pretty much surprised, the connections get declined.
Martin.
> On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 09:39:50PM +0200, Martin Bartelds wrote:
> > Some of my customers can't connect to my 4.1 system with anonymous ftp.
> >
> > When it happens, I do get an error message on the console:
> > "Can't verify hostname: getaddrinfo(....., AF_INET) failed."
> >
> > As far as I know, this is the paranoid double reverse lookup which fails to
> > match the IP-number with the hostname.
> >
> > I do not want to let my customers stumble on this.
> > How can I turn this off ? I did have a look in the ftpd & inetd
> > daemon-sources, but did not find anything about it.
> >
> >
> > Any Idea ?
>
> It's the TCP wrapper. If you want to find the source, look in
> /usr/src/contrib/tcp_wrappers. What's in your /etc/hosts.{allow,deny}?
> --
> Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu
>
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