Re: ProFTPd and reverse DNS

[Krzysztof Halasa <khc () intrepid pm waw pl>]

"Michael S. Fischer" <michael () dynamine net> writes:

> Another potentially useful workaround is to configure ProFTPd to run out
> of inetd, using TCP Wrappers to enforce paranoid DNS checks.  This way
> you can have your cake and eat it too.

One can probably bypass ftpd ACLs in such configuration - it should be
possible to provide valid DNS/rDNS mapping when tcp wrapper is asking
(using short TTL) and then give ftpd some other host name.

It might be fine if you just don't want visits from unregistered hosts.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
Network Administrator