From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/39774 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Matt Armstrong" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: New cvs setup? Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 14:46:41 -0700 (MST) Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <20011030214641.67DDFBD2E@squeaker.lickey.com> References: <873d41gnbg.fsf@uwo.ca> <87ady8udg6.fsf@mclinux.com> <873d40u8pv.fsf@mclinux.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035175431 29718 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:43:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:43:51 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 28194 invoked from network); 30 Oct 2001 21:48:18 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 30 Oct 2001 21:48:18 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 15ygjI-0003cq-00; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 15:47:28 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 30 Oct 2001 15:47:05 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA11527 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 15:46:50 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 28176 invoked by alias); 30 Oct 2001 21:47:02 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 28171 invoked from network); 30 Oct 2001 21:47:00 -0000 Original-Received: from hank.lickey.com (64.81.100.235) by gnus.org with SMTP; 30 Oct 2001 21:47:00 -0000 Original-Received: from squeaker.lickey.com (squeaker.lickey.com [192.168.100.10]) by hank.lickey.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4D91EE30 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 14:46:42 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by squeaker.lickey.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 408D2BD4C for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 14:46:42 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: by squeaker.lickey.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 67DDFBD2E; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 14:46:41 -0700 (MST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <873d40u8pv.fsf@mclinux.com> (Josh Huber's message of "Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:19:24 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 43 X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA v0.39/Python 1.5.2 (linux2) X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20010714 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39774 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39774 Josh Huber writes: > prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: > >> You do have a reverse-lookupable name for that address >> (66.51.210.228.dslextreme.com), but that name has no address. But >> unless the server is treating you differently than most other >> clients (i.e., it's giving you special permissions), it oughtn't >> care about these DNS records. If it does care, that's a >> misconfiguration. > > This is the problem, maybe. > > Perhaps cvs.gnus.org has > > ALL: PARANOID > > in hosts.deny? > > for example, my IP address at home is 65.96.250.128. Surprisingly > (we're talking about ATT broadband here), this address resolves to a > host, and that host resolves to another IP address. For me they > happen to be the same addresses: > > 65.96.250.128 -> h000094c5efff.ne.mediaone.net -> 65.96.250.128 > > I think ALL: PARANOID only requires that > > 1) your IP resolves to a hostname > 2) that hostname resolves to ANY ip address. "ALL: PARANOID" requires that the IP address have a PTR record to a hostname that resolves to the same IP address. > of course, this mostly causes problems, and adds very little > security benefits... True. Though the Internet would be a better place if everybody had their DNS set up properly. -- matt