From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from wb2flw.octothorp.org ([63.224.68.2] ident=root) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 16QiPB-0005ap-00 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 00:14:33 -0500 Received: from localhost (wacker@localhost) by wb2flw.octothorp.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0G5EZ716515 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 05:14:35 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: wb2flw.octothorp.org: wacker owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 22:14:35 -0700 (MST) From: "William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123" To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca 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: Hi, Arrange for your /etc/resolv.conf to be moved out of the way when you're not connected. I think there's a bug in glibc causing the order of hosts then dns to not be honored. HTH and 73. Bill On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Tommy Moore wrote: > 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 > > >