Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 23:11:11 -0700 From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> To: Mark Hoffman <hoffman7@bouldernews.infi.net> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: satan-1.1.1 Message-ID: <34E2927E.FEC72ABF@xmission.com> References: <34DF6026.5199AD15@bouldernews.infi.net>
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Mark Hoffman wrote:
> I have installed FreeBSD 2.2.5 with Perl5, and I've installed
> Satan-1.1.1. I have set the dont_use_nslookup variable to 1. Yet, when I
> start up Satan, I still get the message that I need to set that variable
> to one. I'm using a Toshiba Satellite Pro over a PPP link to check the
> outside of one of my firewalls. Any help?
Do you need to remove "bind" from /etc/host.conf? This may be telling
the FreeBSD resolver routines to use bind even though you've told Satan
not to.
> I'm trying desperately to use use FreeBSD for all of my security
> auditing and reports, and this is the only snag I've run into.
No good deed goes unpunished. ;^)
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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