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