Penned by Ted Unangst on 20130504 0:57.40, we have:
| On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 07:26, Martijn van Duren wrote:
| > For a lot of cases this isn't a problem. But there are a couple of
| > instances where the domain name resolves to something a little to
| > generic to be useful to determine it's orig
My two cents on this is that it should be possible (or the default) to
have it logging the IP address.
Having said that ted, yes, DNS is not "reliable" in some sense - on
the other hand the reverse lookup *is* information that can be useful,
and in the case of dynamic DNS it may contain informatio
On 05/07/2013 04:15 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote:
On 2013/05/07 16:09, Ted Unangst wrote:
On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 20:54, Stuart Henderson wrote:
I don't like logging both because there's a not unreasonable chance
the reverse name will be a complete lie, which will just mislead you.
Oh, it does
On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 21:15, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2013/05/07 16:09, Ted Unangst wrote:
>> On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 20:54, Stuart Henderson wrote:
>>
>> >> I don't like logging both because there's a not unreasonable chance
>> >> the reverse name will be a complete lie, which will just misl
On 2013/05/07 16:09, Ted Unangst wrote:
> On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 20:54, Stuart Henderson wrote:
>
> >> I don't like logging both because there's a not unreasonable chance
> >> the reverse name will be a complete lie, which will just mislead you.
> >
> > Oh, it doesn't do a forward check of the n
On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 20:54, Stuart Henderson wrote:
>> I don't like logging both because there's a not unreasonable chance
>> the reverse name will be a complete lie, which will just mislead you.
>
> Oh, it doesn't do a forward check of the name it got from reverse
> lookup? Yes that's bad.
W
On 2013/05/07 14:26, Ted Unangst wrote:
> On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 15:18, Stuart Henderson wrote:
>
> > I don't feel too strongly about it but my preference would be to
> > log both. There are circumstances (e.g. dhcp with dynamic dns updates)
> > where it's useful to have the reverse at the time o
On 2013 May 07 (Tue) at 14:26:07 -0400 (-0400), Ted Unangst wrote:
:On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 15:18, Stuart Henderson wrote:
:
:> I don't feel too strongly about it but my preference would be to
:> log both. There are circumstances (e.g. dhcp with dynamic dns updates)
:> where it's useful to have the
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 15:18, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> I don't feel too strongly about it but my preference would be to
> log both. There are circumstances (e.g. dhcp with dynamic dns updates)
> where it's useful to have the reverse at the time of connection.
Are you talking about internal or e
On 05/05/13 16:18, Stuart Henderson wrote:
On 2013/05/05 10:06, Nick Holland wrote:
On 05/04/13 01:57, Ted Unangst wrote:
On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 07:26, Martijn van Duren wrote:
For a lot of cases this isn't a problem. But there are a couple of
instances where the domain name resolves to somet
On 2013/05/05 10:06, Nick Holland wrote:
> On 05/04/13 01:57, Ted Unangst wrote:
> > On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 07:26, Martijn van Duren wrote:
> >> For a lot of cases this isn't a problem. But there are a couple of
> >> instances where the domain name resolves to something a little to
> >> generic to
On 05/04/13 01:57, Ted Unangst wrote:
> On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 07:26, Martijn van Duren wrote:
>> For a lot of cases this isn't a problem. But there are a couple of
>> instances where the domain name resolves to something a little to
>> generic to be useful to determine it's origin and hence I'm n
On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 07:26, Martijn van Duren wrote:
> For a lot of cases this isn't a problem. But there are a couple of
> instances where the domain name resolves to something a little to
> generic to be useful to determine it's origin and hence I'm not able to
> decide if it's a legit connect
On 05/04/13 07:26, Martijn van Duren wrote:
Hello tech@,
I run a not note-worthy anonymous ftp server at home for friends and
family. This works perfectly with the supplied ftpd.
As of recently I noticed the amount of unfamiliar connections rising,
but using wtmp and last I found that it used re
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