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On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:47:29PM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> The short answer is "brain damage"; lpr want to check hostnames against
> /etc/hosts.lpd.

Why is this necessary?  Isn't it possible to have just IP addresses in
hosts.lpd?  Or IP ranges and "partial" IP addresses like '192.168.', as
is accepted by hosts.allow/hosts.deny?

Regards,
Peter
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