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Date:      Sun, 25 Feb 2001 14:19:58 +0000
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Paul Schenkeveld <paul@psconsult.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Blocking unresolvable IP addresses with tcpwrappers
Message-ID:  <20010225141958.A30667@lanczos.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <20010225133500.A4927@psconsult.nl>; from paul@psconsult.nl on Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 01:35:00PM %2B0100
References:  <20010225133500.A4927@psconsult.nl>

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On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 01:35:00PM +0100, Paul Schenkeveld wrote:
> In /etc/hosts.allow my first entry is:
> 
>     # Prevent those with no reverse DNS from connecting.
>     ALL : PARANOID : RFC931 20 : deny
> 
> taken from the example.  I still can connect to those services
> from a host whose IP address has no PTR record in DNS and the
> connection is still accepted.

I think you want UNKNOWN not PARANOID. UNKNOWN matches hosts which
have no DNS records, as far as I remember PARANOID matches hosts
which have DNS records, but for which the double lookup doesn't
match.

	David.

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