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Date:      Wed, 20 Jun 2001 01:04:46 +0800
From:      James Lim <evilfry@sg.freebsd.org>
To:        Dan Armstrong <dan@beanfield.com>, Tony Wells <tony@camel.kdsi.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Urgent help with Reverse Lookups and FTPD
Message-ID:  <01062001044603.44515@evilfry.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <3B2F84CE.608E7F75@beanfield.com>
References:  <3B2F74D7.C057B32F@beanfield.com> <3B2F820B.4147E4E8@camel.kdsi.net> <3B2F84CE.608E7F75@beanfield.com>

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Hi

=09Are you using the normal ftpd? Does commenting out the following in=20
your /etc/host.allow works?


# Prevent those with no reverse DNS from connecting.
#ALL : PARANOID : RFC931 20 : deny

Hope this helps.



On the last episode Wednesday 20 June 2001 00:58, Dan Armstrong wrote:
> Well, we have almost 1000 stub-bridged Ethernet LANs each on it's
> own private subnet tunneled over an ATM network back to a router.=20
> The long and the short of it is that we just cannot possibly manage
> reverse info for the entire network.
>
> Dan.
>
> Tony Wells wrote:
> > Do you really need thousands of addresses for your customers?=20
> > I'm making an assumption , but if you're assigning addresses
> > using DHCP, can you limit the range of addresses assigned to a
> > reasonable amount?  If you only have say, 100 modems/xdsl/isdn or
> > whatever connections, you don't need ~64,000 IP's available.
> >
> > I would try looking into limiting the addresses assigned, and
> > then using /etc/hosts or reverse dns to resolve the IP's.=20
> > (Unless of course, you really need all those IP's.)
> >
> > Dan Armstrong wrote:
> > > We are a small ISP, and just turned up a new webserver running
> > > Free4.3
> > >
> > > Most of our customers live on private (192.168) addresses and I
> > > am getting slaughtered with phone calls that they cannot ftp
> > > into their sites, and it is because their ftp programs don't
> > > necessarily wait for Free's ftpd to timeout doing the reverse
> > > lookup, for an address that of course does not have any reverse
> > > information for it.  If I add their IP to the /etc/hosts BOOM
> > > they get in instantly.  These thousands of addresses are all
> > > dynamically assigned, so the hosts file fix is not possible on
> > > this scale.  Is there a way I can get it to stop? HELP!
> > >
> > > Dan.
> > >
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- --=20
Regards,
James Lim
http://sg.freebsd.org | http://www.bsd-geeks.org
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