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Re: HOSTS.EQUIV "behavior" (Colgate)???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Johnson)
Fri Nov 1 09:38:00 1996
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From: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 01 Nov 1996 02:57:31 EST."
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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 09:35:43 -0500
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Lawrence Houston writes:
>Have been running your patched rlogind (NetKit-B-0.08-8.i386.rpm) since
>you released it on the 28th. It did infact correct my problems with the
>incorrect wtmp entries, Thanks!
Good! Welcome.
>This evening had some strange behavior with the same Colgate Host and was
>wondering if you might have any explainations? For several hours this
>evening we were without Internet Connectivity past the regional level,
>which for some reason caused RLOGIN Connections to HANG part way through
>the login process (Telnet/FTP were uneffected)!
Sounds like it was waiting for a nameserver; rlogind (actually
pam_rhost, but without pam, rlogind does this) does reverse name
lookups for EACH host in the hosts.equiv file.
>Could there be any requirement for Full Internet Connectivity leading to
>the Rlogin Daemon experiencing such a HANGING problem (PAM or something
>else which has changed since Picasso)?
You need a nameserver which can resolve reverse lookups of the host you
are connecting from.
michaelkjohnson
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