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Re: PPP&NIC config problems/questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Holland)
Tue Aug 20 16:47:39 1996
From: David Holland <dholland@hcs.harvard.edu>
To: priebe@renfrew.edu.on.ca
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 15:32:32 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <009A7225.07946BDF.9@board1.renfrew.edu.on.ca> from "David Priebe" at Aug 20, 96 01:36:17 pm
> The problem is, When my PPP link is down, in.telnetd is not
> allowing connections from the terminal server. In my
> /var/logs/secure file there are messages telling me that telnetd
> cannot "gethostbyname" for the terminal server. The DNS servers I
> have defined are of course on the other side of the PPP link. The
> terminal server is defined in my hosts file, and my machine should
> be checking that file first, but it doesn't seem to matter. TCPD
> is starting in.telnetd, so I have an entry in my hosts.allow file
> for the terminal server, but that doesn't seem to make a difference
> either.
I have a similar problem (it's tcpd that's doing it) with tcpd not
looking in the hosts file. The problem in my case is an alias for a
machine name that's not in the DNS due to problems with fascist
administrators, but I suspect it's the same problem.
The problem is someplace deep in gethostbyname().
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