Hi Aaron! On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Aaron Brashears wrote:
> Thanks to a wonderful source of help (I deleted the email, and the poster
> didn't cc debian-users), this problem has been solved. The 10.20.0.2 machine
> had a line in /etc/hosts.deny which looke like:
>
> ALL: PARANOID
>
> which would prevent me from logging in from my Debian box. However, both Red
> Hat and Windows implementations of telnet, and a Windows secure shell client
> (securecrt) could log onto the box denying me access. After commenting out
> the paranoid line (which is documented as preventing all connections) I
> could connect without problems from any machine.
You are wrong about the PARANOID line. It does not prevent all
connections. It prevents connections from hosts it cannot reverse
resolve (and this is a good thing).
The better solution would be to make a DNS (with reverse dns for 10/8)
or add the hosts into each computer's /etc/hosts file.
> Is this a bug with inetd or portmap?
This is not a bug.
yours,
peter
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