Ilia Sotnikov <hostcc at gmail.com> wrote: Hi,
>> Please detail your change, and how it alters the behaviour of >> check_host(). > > Just as simple as it sounds - if the name lookup with local hostname > failed, continue to check remote host (assuming that remote host > address isn't the same as local one) rather then denied access for it. > The name lookup could fail for obvious reasons - the local host isn't > registered on DNS server participating in the process, or no DNS > servers are configured (this I need to re-check). gethostbyname() includes information from /etc/hosts, so that lookup should not fail on any properly-configured system. Please revert. JB. -- Julien BLACHE <http://www.jblache.org> <jb at jblache.org> GPG KeyID 0xF5D65169
