At 6:41 PM -0700 9/29/98, Ken Nakata wrote:
>Nicholas James Humfrey wrote:
>>
>>    I am running NetBSD/mac68k on a MacIIsi with an Apple Ethernet card,
>>I have
>>    setup apache on it to act as a proxy server for the other machines on the
>>    network, this works very well and very fast. However when using other
>>services
>>    like Telnet or FTP, and the IMAP host there seem to be long delays
>>before the
>>    host responds to the connection, so very often the client timesout.
>>There are
>>    also very long delays when running the netstat command.
>
>This is more of a shot in the dark, but it sounds like some kind of a
>reverse name lookup problem.  Is inetd supposed to do reverse name
>lookups when accepting connection?  That I'm not sure, though...

Makes sense actually.  The NetBSD-bundled version of tcp_wrappers has
paranoid rejection turned on by default if I remember correctly.  What this
means is that for every new connection arbitrated by inetd it will do both
a reverse and a forward name lookup to make sure they match.  If not, no
connection allowed.

Start with man hosts.allow for information on how to modify this behavior.

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