[plug] Problem with gethostbyname

[Tony Clark]

Seems like it is failing on a reverse DNS lookup.  Does the machine 
really exist in Bigponds DNS.  It doesn't seem to resolve to anything 
here.

tony

quoting "Mark A. Sasse" <biker at bigpond.net.au>:

> Hi All,
>
> I have been having some problems with RH6.2.  I've configured RH6.2 to
> accept telnet connections from certain IP addresses.
>
> In the hosts.allow file, I have
>
> ALL: .wa.bigpond.net.au: ALLOW
>
> However, when I look in the secure file in /var/logs, I get a 
getbyhostname
> failed error message.
>
> The message is
>
> can't verify hostname :
> gethostbyname(CPE-144-137-234-225.wa.bigpond.net.au)
> failed
>
> Is this something to do with the gethostbyname function in RH6.2?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
> 



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