Date: 21 Nov 2003 20:11:39 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@lphp.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tcp wrappers getaddrinfo Message-ID: <44wu9tmcl0.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <200311201442.32136.ajacoutot@lphp.org> References: <200311201442.32136.ajacoutot@lphp.org>
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Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@lphp.org> writes:
> I get a lot of those warning messages in my logs.
> Is there any way I could tell inetd / tcp wrappers to turn those off ?
>
> inetd[93598]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 23: can't verify hostname:
> getaddrinfo(xxxxxxxx.imaginet.fr, AF_INET) failed
>
> I know what it means, the only thing I don't know how to achieve is to turn
> this off :)
Have you modified the rule at line 23 of /etc/hosts.allow?
Normally, it's
ALL : ALL : allow
which as far as I recall, never does any hostname lookups at all.
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