On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Robert Friberg wrote:
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mikkel L. Ellertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> [snip]
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> > Put 192.168.1.99 in your /etc/hosts file. What is happening is reverse
> > DNS lookup is failing.
>
>
> Thanks. I didn't know that the lookup must succeed. Is this a security
> feature or is the hostname really needed for something?
>
> regards,
>
I think the hostname is needed by tcp wrappers to check agenst the
hosts.allow and hosts.deny files.
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