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Date:      Sun, 24 Mar 2002 17:11:28 -0500 (EST)
From:      Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
To:        Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: hosts.allow in dmesg [www2.tidenet.com]
Message-ID:  <20020324170737.L50035-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
In-Reply-To: <3C9E2C4B.E988034@cs.umu.se>

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On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Paul Everlund wrote:
> Hi! Found this message when doing a dmesg -a:
> -> Mar 19 05:26:37 fw inetd[20463]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 23:
> -> host name/name mismatch: www2.tidenet.com != everlund.homeip.net
> Line 23 in hosts.allow says:
> ALL : ALL : allow
> What does this mean and what triggers the message? Thanks in advance! Best regards, Paul

My /etc/hosts.allow file (which I didn't know about until a previous
discussion on this list, and which I just modified) has in it:

# Start by allowing everything (this prevents the rest of the file
# from working, so remove it when you need protection).
# The rules here work on a "First match wins" basis.
ALL : ALL : allow

The "First match wins" basis is important because you can put other lines
ahead of the ALL-ALL-allow line... by the way, when I query "host
www2.tidenet.com" on two different nameservers I get host not found.

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Peter Leftwich
President & Founder
Video2Video Services
Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA
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