From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 14 16:11:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from iaehv.iae.nl (iaehv.IAE.nl [194.151.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A4B837B66E for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 16:11:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by iaehv.iae.nl (Postfix, from userid 4786) id 1F55C7E7E; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 01:11:12 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: Double reverse lookup: OFF !!!! In-Reply-To: <20001014155254.A25121@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> from "Crist J . Clark" at "Oct 14, 2000 3:52:54 pm" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 01:11:12 +0200 (CEST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1059 Message-Id: <20001014231112.1F55C7E7E@iaehv.iae.nl> From: bts@iae.nl (MB) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message