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Date:      Wed, 02 Aug 2000 16:39:33 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Tim Zingelman <zingelman@fnal.gov>
Cc:        Mike Hoskins <mike@adept.org>, plamendp@bgstore.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: telnet connection refused from IP outside subnet 
Message-ID:  <200008022239.QAA95390@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Aug 2000 17:31:38 CDT." <Pine.GSO.4.21.0008021727560.16851-100000@nova.fnal.gov> 
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0008021727560.16851-100000@nova.fnal.gov>  

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In message <Pine.GSO.4.21.0008021727560.16851-100000@nova.fnal.gov> Tim Zingelman writes:
: > : comment out the PARANOID line in /etc/hosts.allow?
: > : 	#ALL : PARANOID : RFC931 20 : deny
: The RFC931 part may be silly, but the PARANOID part keeps out any ip
: address that does not reverse DNS to a name.  We find that useful.

Ah.  You are right.  I'd forgotten about that.

Warner


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