On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Michael S. Fischer wrote: > On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 03:38:27PM -0600, Matthew S . Hallacy wrote: > > > Recently while browsing through security logs I noticed that quite a > > few of the hosts connecting to the machine did not resolve, I've > > checked into it, and apparently ProFTPd does not check forward to > > reverse DNS mappings, and only resolves the IP address connecting. [snip] > Another potentially useful workaround is to configure ProFTPd to run out > of inetd, using TCP Wrappers to enforce paranoid DNS checks. This way > you can have your cake and eat it too. Alternatively, one could use mod_wrap: http://rad.geology.washington.edu/~tj/proftpd/ Cheers, Noah
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