Re: [CentOS] tcp wrappers Question..

2015-10-14 Thread Jason Welsh
understood. this is just on a local network.. thanks for the info On 10/14/2015 03:20 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 10/14/2015 11:39 AM, Jason Welsh wrote: but I cant seem to find out how/where to enable said feature. See the man pages for hosts_options and hosts_access. It is rare for syst

Re: [CentOS] tcp wrappers Question..

2015-10-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/14/2015 11:39 AM, Jason Welsh wrote: but I cant seem to find out how/where to enable said feature. See the man pages for hosts_options and hosts_access. It is rare for systems to support RFC 931 and common for firewalls to drop requests (creating long delays in connections), so user na

Re: [CentOS] tcp wrappers Question..

2015-10-14 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/14/2015 11:39 AM, Jason Welsh wrote: hey folks, I keep seeing this on the internet "The user name lookup feature of TCP Wrappers uses identd to identify the username of the remote host. By default, this feature is disabled, as identd may appear hung when there are a large number of TCP

[CentOS] tcp wrappers Question..

2015-10-14 Thread Jason Welsh
hey folks, I keep seeing this on the internet "The user name lookup feature of TCP Wrappers uses identd to identify the username of the remote host. By default, this feature is disabled, as identd may appear hung when there are a large number of TCP connections." but I cant seem to find out h