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Re: ALL: PARANOID from /etc/hosts.deny Should be Commented by default



On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 02:42:16PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> it is completely irrelevant to this tcp-wrappers ALL:PARANOID discussion
> whether the .in-addr.arpa records are delegated to you or not, or
> whether they contain your preferred PTR records. that may be of cosmetic
> significance to you, but it makes no difference whatsoever to how tcpd's
> PARANOID option works.
> 
> the *ONLY* thing that matters is that the PTR record (if one exists)
> matches the corresponding A record.

yes. but hamish also suggested that ptr's be mandatory.

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Daniel Stone
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