Re: New cvs setup?

[Josh Huber <huber@alum.wpi.edu>]

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.

of course, this mostly causes problems, and adds very little security
benefits...

ttyl,

-- 
Josh Huber