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On Friday 23 October 2009 21:49:42 Robin Atwood wrote: |
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> My syslog is showing zillions of messages: |
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> Oct 24 02:25:58 opal xinetd[8054]: START: pop-3 pid=16534 |
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> from=61.134.64.199 Oct 24 02:25:59 opal xinetd[16534]: warning: |
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> /etc/hosts.allow, line 7: can't verify hostname: |
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> gethostbyname(199.64.134.61.broad.gs.dynamic.163data.com.cn) failed |
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> Oct 24 02:26:09 opal xinetd[8054]: EXIT: pop-3 status=0 pid=16534 |
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> duration=11(sec) |
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> I run denyhosts but don't trap pop3 messages so I manually added the IP |
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> address to /etc/hosts.deny and..., it made absolutely no difference. I run |
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> qpopper which is compiled with xinetd support and xinetd uses tcpd, so I |
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> assumed the address would be blocked. Apparently not so. Any ideas? |
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You have allow ALL ALL early in hosts.allow, or |
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you have allow pop3 all earlier in hosts.allow |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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