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From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To: MB <bts@iae.nl>
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Subject: Re: Double reverse lookup: OFF !!!!
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On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 01:11:12AM +0200, MB wrote:
> > 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}?
> 
> host.allow does have:
> ALL:ALL:allow
> 
> So I'm pretty much surprised, the connections get declined.

That is the first rule, right?

If you still have problems, you might consider running ftpd(8) as an
independent daemon outside of inetd(8).
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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