Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:06:05 -0500, Steve Dickson wrote: > >> Please tell how I check a 'mountd: <hostname>' entry in >> the /etc/hosts.deny with only an IP address without doing a reverse >> name lookup? > > You can't, and no one is denying that as far as I can see. And I'd > actually consider this to be failing on the safe side. > > But, given an entry in hosts.allow like this: > > mountd: host.example.com 192.168.1.1 > > denying the ip 192.168.1.1 just because it does not have a hostname > associated with it would be just wrong. Remember I said _matching_ IP... meaning if the above line was in hosts.allow and client 192.168.1.1 did a mount the client would be allow the mount without doing a lookup because there was a matching IP address entry... Now if client 192.168.1.2 did a mount, there would not be a IP matching entry in hosts.allow so a lookup would be necessary to see if a 'mountd: <hostname>' exists in hosts.deny. Is that making sense? steved. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
