fc6: telnetd refuses connections if nameserver is down

kalinix calin.kalinix.cosma at gmail.com
Mon Feb 26 22:51:59 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 22:00 +0100, Dario Lesca wrote:
> Il giorno lun, 26/02/2007 alle 14.34 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson ha
> scritto:
> 
> > /etc/xinetd.d/telnet
> it contain only 'log_on_failure  += USERID'
> 
> but if I comment it none is change.
> 
> A workaround is delete the 'dns' keyword from /etc/nsswitch.conf from
> 'hosts:      files' line.
> 
> Thanks Mikkel.
> 
> -- 
> Dario Lesca <d.lesca at solinos.it>
> 

Actually the "HOST" part is not in /etc/xinetd.d/telnet but
in /etc/xinetd.conf:


        log_on_failure  = HOST
        log_on_success  = PID HOST DURATION EXIT





Calin

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