hosts.allow

[Tommy Moore]

Speaking of allowing hosts to connect to your machines have a little 
problem of my own here.
On my little network I don't run dns so I access my different machines by 
their hostnames.
One thing I notice is that when I'm not connected to the internet with my 
firewall machine when ever I try to make an ftp connection to my machines 
the setion hangs.
I suspect this is the ftp server trying to resolve the dns hostname. How 
do I get the default ftp server on RH 7.2 to look for the hostname in 
/etc/hosts instead of querrying dns.
I don't seem to have this problem when using ssh though.
Any help would be cool of how I can fix this.
This gets rather annoying if I don't have a connection to the world.

Thansk.
Tommy


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