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Re: Reverse dns

From: Pete Hickey <pete () shadows uottawa ca>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:38:16 -0500

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:57:57AM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote:

I'm also looking for a list of things that *break* when you disable reverse 
(e.g. mail).

Tcpdump also doesn't like hosts that won't reverse.



Do you mean tcpdump, or tcpd?  tcpd, likes to do reverse
lookups.  Especially if compiled with the 'PARANOID' option.

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