SELinux Attack!

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 10/13/07, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
> Vinayak Mahadevan wrote:
> >> I thought it was localhost not
> >> resolving.  The answer is that your machine can't resolve its own name.
> >> "k5di" is not defined in /etc/hosts, and your DNS servers are public
> >> ones.  What is your full hostname?  k5di.xyz.com - what is the "xyz.com"
> >> part of your machine's name?
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I had the same problem of sendmail and other net-related services
> > starting after a delay. I first thought that selinux was the problem
> > and then i had turned it off. That also did not solve the problem.
> > Then once i changed my dns servers setting (Now I use opendns.com dns
> > servers) I have not faced any problems and all the services are
> > starting properly
> >
> > FWIW
> >
> > Vinayak
> >
> >
> >
>     I have had all those problems in the past years. But this problem
> yesterday was in fact caused by SELinux. I say that because different
> from your experience when I turned off SELinux all the problems went away.


You don't even KNOW when you turned SELinux off, so how can you say that?

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