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Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@lphp.org> writes:

> I get a lot of those warning messages in my logs.
> Is there any way I could tell inetd / tcp wrappers to turn those off ?
> 
> inetd[93598]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 23: can't verify hostname: 
> getaddrinfo(xxxxxxxx.imaginet.fr, AF_INET) failed
> 
> I know what it means, the only thing I don't know how to achieve is to turn 
> this off :)

Have you modified the rule at line 23 of /etc/hosts.allow?
Normally, it's 
        ALL : ALL : allow
which as far as I recall, never does any hostname lookups at all.