[ILUG] CVS reverse lookup failure

[Bryan O'Donoghue]

Caleb Shay wrote:
> I'm not on the list, but I ran across this posting on google while
> trying to fix the same problem.  Here's the solution:
> 
> edit /etc/xinetd.conf
> 
> remove the line that says
> 
> only_from = localhost
> 
> by default xinetd only allows connections from localhost
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Caleb Shay
> caleb at webninja.com

Hmm.

You're totally right.

xinetd.conf does have that particularly naff default setting.

I'm running cvsd in a chroot wrapper now as it is.

<insert verbose complaint about having this set this way per default>
<insert another complaint about the misleading logs>

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