hosts.allow

[William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123]

Hi,

     Arrange for your /etc/resolv.conf to be moved out of the way when 
you're not connected.  I think there's a bug in glibc causing the order of 
hosts then dns to not be honored.



          HTH and 73.
          Bill


On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Tommy Moore wrote:

> 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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