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From: nipper@iramu1.ira.uka.de (Arnold Nipper)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: no inverse mappings
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Date: 11 Aug 90 03:51:07 GMT
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In article <1990Aug10.152144.17260@ee.rochester.edu> deke@ee.rochester.edu (Dikran Kassabian) writes:
>I see an increasing number of ftp connections to a UNIX box in our domain 
>that provides anonymous ftp, and a fair number of telnet connections

why so much cry about it?? You can patch the ftpd to ignore connections
not to be able to give an inverse mapping, or am I wrong? As far as I  know
it's an option  given  via the Makefile.

Arnold

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PS: Where are the proper hacks  for ULRTIX 4.1 (security   ....)  well I just 
thouhgt to cc it ,but I forgot the security options.