On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:28:53AM +0100, Peter Wächtler wrote: > Well, I have never used xinetd. > So either switch to inetd or look if you can disable this feature. > > man xinetd.conf > and searching for "reverse" gave me: > > only_from determines the remote hosts to which the > particular service is available. Its > value is a list of IP addresses which can > be specified in any combination of the > following ways: > > [...] > d) a host name. When a connection is > made to xinetd, a reverse lookup is > performed, and the canonical name > returned is compared to the speci > fied host name. You may also use > domain names in the form of > .domain.com. If the reverse lookup > of the client's IP is within > .domain.com, a match occurs. > > > > But I guess, xinetd will always try to do a reverse lookup for "successfull" > logging a name instead of an IP address. I've man-and-searched all the manuals..., and got no clue of disabling the annoying reverse lookup. /me sigh... - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
