From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 13 18: 6:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pooh.ASARian.org (pooh.ASARian.org [216.21.171.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9C2A37B407 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 18:06:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (fuzzy@localhost.ASARian.org [127.0.0.1]) by pooh.ASARian.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4E0x9h59284 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 20:59:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fuzzy@pooh.ASARian.org) Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 20:59:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Fuzzy To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: /etc/hosts.allow & host name mismatch. Message-ID: X-No-Archive: Yes Organization: ASARian Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG May 13 20:23:17 pooh inetd[58204]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 6: host name/address mismatch: 216.12.215.107 != berylsphotographs.com host 216.12.215.107 107.215.12.216.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer berylsphotographs.com host berylsphotographs.com berylsphotographs.com has address 64.246.17.37 berylsphotographs.com mail is handled (pri=30) by mail.berylsphotographs.com it appears that inetd is accurate, the forward zone and reverse zone do not match, but that has nothing to do with us? do I have to put something in /etc/hosts and then /etc/hosts.allow to stop these error messages? by the way, line six in /etc/hosts.allow is a deny for another one of these, mismatches: ALL : speedtrap.centropolisfx.com : deny I don't think I should have to do DNS workaround for someone elses zones. line six has nothing to do with either the IP or hostname in the error message? a confused, Fuzzy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message