From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from islander.aoml.noaa.gov ([192.111.123.146]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 16QZvM-0002wj-00 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:11:12 -0500 Received: from localhost (tmoore@localhost) by islander.aoml.noaa.gov (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0FK8AT18515 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:08:10 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:08:10 -0500 (EST) From: Tommy Moore X-X-Sender: To: Subject: Re: hosts.allow In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.7 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Speaking of allowing hosts to connect to your machines have a little problem of my own here. On my little network I don't run dns so I access my different machines by their hostnames. One thing I notice is that when I'm not connected to the internet with my firewall machine when ever I try to make an ftp connection to my machines the setion hangs. I suspect this is the ftp server trying to resolve the dns hostname. How do I get the default ftp server on RH 7.2 to look for the hostname in /etc/hosts instead of querrying dns. I don't seem to have this problem when using ssh though. Any help would be cool of how I can fix this. This gets rather annoying if I don't have a connection to the world. Thansk. Tommy -- Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;) -- Linus Torvalds, about his failing hard drive on linux.cs.helsinki.fi