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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!ux5.cso.uiuc.edu!igor From: igor@students.uiuc.edu (Igor Vladim Roshchin) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA and resolver PROBLEM (gethostby*.getanswer) Followup-To: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 3 Jun 1996 02:35:44 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 38 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4otj20$ctl@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <slrn4qu6d8.3vl.map@marikit.iphil.net> <slrn4qvae1.9ft.map@marikit.iphil.net> <dkqoo4.nv7.ln@verdi.nethelp.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: ux5.cso.uiuc.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains:10567 comp.os.linux.networking:40485 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:20554 Steinar Haug (sthaug@nethelp.no) wrote: : [Miguel A.L. Paraz] : | >May 31 23:51:24 server in.telnetd[16858]: gethostby*.getanswer: : | >asked for "4.4.176.203.in-addr.arpa", got "4.0.4.176.203.in-addr.arpa" : | : | I located the source of the error message - it's not in tcpd, : | but in the resolver code - I found it in the C library (libc.a). : | It potentially would break anything that depends on IP address : | to name lookups. So far, the effect here is that tcpd rejects : | connections from systems with 'allowed' domain names. : | : | DNS-aware tools such as 'nslookup' and 'dig' are just fine. : | : | I believe this has to be fixed before : | draft-ietf-cidrd-classless-inaddr-01.txt becomes a standard. : This *is* fixed in 4.9.3-REL. Actually it was fixed earlier than that : (4.9.3-BETA26 or thereabouts). : Upgrade your software. : Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no I am running FreeBSD-2.1STABLE, I am getting the same messages from different programs : traceroute, ftpd, ... which are looking up for the IP number. Sorry, I didn't get the answer completely: What fix, what version are you talking about ? Thank you. IgoR --- StR@komkon.org