Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 17:31:38 -0500 (CDT) From: Tim Zingelman <zingelman@fnal.gov> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Mike Hoskins <mike@adept.org>, plamendp@bgstore.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: telnet connection refused from IP outside subnet Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0008021727560.16851-100000@nova.fnal.gov> In-Reply-To: <200008021743.LAA92777@harmony.village.org>
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> : comment out the PARANOID line in /etc/hosts.allow? > : #ALL : PARANOID : RFC931 20 : deny > Yes. This PARANOID option is really quite silly since RFC 931 is > useless outside of your own administrative domain and off dubious > value inside it. Best to leave it commented out. > Warner 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. - Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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