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Date:      Wed, 24 Jan 2001 23:43:03 -0600
From:      Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
To:        kris@freebsd.org
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ftp slow to connect
Message-ID:  <20010124234303.B95605@bonsai.knology.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010124233343.A95605@bonsai.knology.net>; from sprice@hiwaay.net on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:33:43PM -0600
References:  <20010124221453.C94889@bonsai.knology.net> <20010124205641.A47702@citusc17.usc.edu> <20010124225931.D94889@bonsai.knology.net> <20010124211416.A48018@citusc17.usc.edu> <20010124233343.A95605@bonsai.knology.net>

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On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:33:43PM -0600, I wrote:
> 
> BTW, how would I go about fixing the clients?  I try it from my
> box at home or one at work that I know does reverse DNS correctly
> and I still get the same thing.

Urk, I take that back.  I just did it from yet another box at work
and it logged in almost immediately.  This also happens to be the
box hosting DNS for the domain it is in and I setup DNS so I know
reverses work.

What are the implications of disabling the reverse lookups (if
I'm able to find that magic line of code)?  With ftp since I'm
sending data back to the client I shouldn't really be worried
about someone spoofing their IP address, should I?  It seems like
the worst that would happen would be that I know the IP address
that connected to the ftp server but not the machine name
associated with it.  Is that a correct assumption or do I need to
get some rest and re-group?

-steve


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