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Subject: Re: inetd and libwrap issues
To: john@nlc.net.au (John Saunders)
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 13:11:16 +0200 (MET DST)
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I have found that, at least in the past, portmap needs ip addresses
rather than hostnames in hosts.allow, for some reason it wouldn't
work with hostnames.

Jos

John Saunders wrote:
> 
> I have just converted over from a tcp_wrappers system to one using
> the internal libwrap'ed inetd. For the most part I have got the
> thing to work. One annoyance is that changes to /etc/hosts.allow
> don't get automatically used until inetd is killed and re-started.
> Does a SIGHUP work here, the man page doesn't mention it?
> 
> However I have come unstuck getting NFS to work. It seems that
> portmap also has code to access libwrap. However I have tried
> many combinations of hosts.allow lines and killing portmap, but
> have not yet had it work. My log file says...
> 
> Jun 22 17:12:56 XXXXX portmap[78016]: connect from XXX.XX.XXX.X to \
> getport(nfs): request from unauthorized host
> 
> The hosts.allow line is...
> 
> portmap : localhost XXXXX.domain YYYYY.domain : allow
> 
> When I kill off portmap and re-start it, rpcinfo -p shows...
> 
> root@XXXXX:/ {510} # rpcinfo -p
>    program vers proto   port
>     100000    2   tcp    111  portmapper
>     100000    2   udp    111  portmapper
> 
> So it appears to have lost the RPC registrations for mountd and
> nfsd.
> 
> So what is the correct way to get the system back up and working
> after what should be (or was before) a trivial change to the
> hosts.allow file?
> 
> Cheers.
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