Re: Etch rsync daemon reverse DNS lookups

[Simon Paillard <simon.paillard@resel.enst-bretagne.fr>]

Hi Jim,

Sorry for the late, don't know if you already solved your problem.

On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 02:19:05PM -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> I've started noticing that Etch rsync (2.6.9-2etch1) is doing reverse
> DNS lookups on connections, this is different behavior than Sarge rsync
> (2.6.4-6).  I've made sure that there are no "hosts (allow|deny)"
> statements, nor %h logging statements, in my rsyncd.conf file.  Also
> --address= is set to an IP address.   Am I missing something else that
> would cause this strange (and slowing) behavior?
 
In the case rsync is launched is not in standalone mode, but launched by
inetd, the /etc/hosts.(allow|deny) may explain the reverse lookups.

Hope it helps.

Otherwise, I don't have any explaination..

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Simon Paillard