Re: Networking question

["Flood Randy Capt AFCA/TCAA" <Randy.Flood@scott.af.mil>]

It's a bad thing to put host names in /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny.  Some services  like SSH use those files, but do not resolve the host names at all.  So, putting hostnames in there instead of ip addresses can screw things up.  

 


-----Original Message-----
From: Charlie Brune [mailto:silug@bruneworld.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 8:04 AM
To: silug-discuss@silug.org
Subject: Networking question


I just had my URL changed from bruneworld.tzo.com to bruneworld.com.  I
like it better!

I reloaded RH 8.0 from scratch because I didn't know how to change the
name of my machine.  No biggie.

Question:  What does this message mean?  (in /var/log/messages)

Dec 18 07:46:04 bruneworld xinetd[12912]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow,
line 12: host name/name mismatch: bruneworld.com !=
commons10k1.mo24.107.34.126.charter-stl.com

Huh?  Line 12 of /etc/hosts.allow turns on access for imap (since I
sometimes use SquirrelMail) and is:

imapd: 192.168.*, 127.0.0.1, bruneworld.com

I wouldn't have thought that losing the ".tzo" part of my domain name
would mess me up.  8-(

Thanks,
Charlie







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