[H-GEN] Slow telnet and ftp ??

[Aaron Howell]

There's an easier way to do this.
Take out the line that says paranoid from /etc/hosts.deny, or, alternatively recompile your tcp wrappers without it.
This stops it trying to do reverse lookups, it will trust hosts to be nice and not spoof.
Regards
Aaron
On Thu, Oct 30, 1997 at 08:34:37PM +1000, David Shackleton wrote:
> Actually I've worked out a (rather bad hack) workaround for the subnet
> reverse IP lookup thing.
> 
> I've simply declared in /etc/named.boot a primary record for the subnet in
> question, and as my host isn't authoritive for the subnet, there shouldn't
> be any dns out there replicating it.  Sped things up amazingly.
> 
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