> You could probably stop the problem by putting "garfield" in
> /etc/hosts. It
> appears that since "garfield" in using private/reserved IP,
> it isn't resolving
> from DNS; putting it in /etc/hosts should solve the problem.
No, we should add the client computer in /etc/hosts. But we have a lot of
computers (at least 6) that could connect and some are DHCP. Garfield is the
server, not the client.
> > Other problem:
> > I have a line like this:
> > Feb 12 11:57:10 garfield sshd[25970]: Did not receive ident
> string from
> > 10.2.4.7.
> > every 5 minutes in /var/log/messages. What's the cause?
>
> Is "garfield" running identd (FTP://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1413.txt)?
No, it's not running identd. But another server produces the same and it has
identd running.
What's that?
-jec
