Re: heard all the who-haha?
I've made the changes. I'll see how it goes.
Thanks for the info.
Later,
Kevin Traas Baan Business Systems
Systems Analyst Langley, BC, Canada
Kevin@Baan-BBS.CA (604) 882-8169
-----Original Message-----
From: Brandon Mitchell <bhmit1@mail.wm.edu>
To: Kevin Traas <ktraas@uniserve.com>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Date: Tuesday, August 12, 1997 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: heard all the who-haha?
>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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