From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 2 15:40:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6485537C346 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 15:40:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA66499; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 16:39:53 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id QAA95390; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 16:39:33 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200008022239.QAA95390@harmony.village.org> To: Tim Zingelman Subject: Re: telnet connection refused from IP outside subnet Cc: Mike Hoskins , plamendp@bgstore.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 02 Aug 2000 17:31:38 CDT." References: Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 16:39:33 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message