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From: ianh@resmel.bhp.com.au (Ian Hoyle)
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Subject: Re: named as security violator?
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Date: 4 Jun 91 03:44:04 GMT
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mschroed@ux.acs.umn.edu (Michael Schroeder) writes:


>Another symptom is that anyone logging in on the console of machine-a (the
>one running named) gets a pop-up button or banner that says 
>	Network Security Violation
>	address of machine-a

>The security violation goes away as soon as I do /etc/chkconfig named off and
>reboot.

This indicates that the machines's in-addr.arpa name has not been found in
the named.rev file ie. it can't match the name it thinks it is to that
returned when the window server does an initial gethostbyaddr call when it
starts up.

	ian
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