Re: host & DNS
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Robert Ruzbacky wrote:
> warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 11: can't verify hostname: gethostbyname
> (gomez.star.cd) failed
Maybe use IP instead.
> Why would cause this to fail? When I put "ALL: 203." in the
Sometimes ther nameserver is available and sometimes it is not.
> in.telnetd: ALL EXECEPT 192.168.1.
Typo: "EXCEPT".
> everyone in the above category, which annoyed some of our users. I thought
> that the DNS server (bind) handled all these requests and that the host
> files didn't matter much, until I saw what was happening.
/etc/hosts.{allow,deny} are not related to DNS lookups. They are for
allowing access based on IPs, hostnames, usernames.
Jeremy C. Reed
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