[H-GEN] Slow telnet and ftp ??

[David Shackleton]

On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Aaron Howell wrote:
> 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.
> On Thu, Oct 30, 1997 at 08:34:37PM +1000, David Shackleton wrote:
> > 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.

Thanks Aaron, but as per the previous post (below), I didn't want to
disable it -completely-, as I don't want it to trust hosts, even if they
are nice and friendly...  ;-) 

> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 10:37:27 +1000 (EST)                             
> From: David Shackleton <dshackle at pineapple.goldenglow.com.au>           
> Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Slow telnet and ftp ??                             
>                                                                         
> Is there a simple way to disable the reverse lookups for a whole subnet,
> without disabling idents completely?                                    

Cheers,
David

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