Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 01:02:05 -0700 (PDT) From: bmk@dtr.com To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: gethostbyaddr() fails on some connections Message-ID: <199505040802.BAA16955@dtr.com>
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I've recently started having problems with clients connecting to my server - it appears to be a gethostbyaddr failure, at least in part. For example, a remote user starting Trumpet newsreader via a PPP connection gets the connection refused - an undefined gethostbyaddr error gets logged to the syslog. Eudora can't connect either - it just hangs while attempting to log in. Telnet closes the connection almost immediately, before a login prompt is seen. I have temporarily worked around this problem by including everything on my network in my yp hosts.* map. I believe that the problem may be with my DNS database, but I'm not sure. I can query with nslookup and all appears normal - both forward and reverse lookups give the expected results. I'm not sure when this started. I have made some recent changes to my configuration: added NIS, upgraded to tcpd 7.0 (with -DPARANOID), and made a few routine changes to my DNS database (added a couple of hosts). I'm stumped at this point - anyone have any ideas where I should continue looking? I don't think that this is a BIND/NIS interaction - I've tested this with NIS not running and get the same results.
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