Re: heard all the who-haha?

[Brandon Mitchell <bhmit1@mail.wm.edu>]

On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Kevin Traas wrote:

> Is this lookup necessary?  Is there a way to disable it?

Try commenting out the PARANOID:ALL from /etc/hosts.deny (this is from 
memory, so there may be typos).  I'm guessing the dns info is cached(sp?) 
somewhere after a ping resulting your reported behavior.  The paranoid 
setting requires that the users name matches their ip or something like 
that.  In a nutshell, it's a security feature.

Brandon


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