Bug 18726 - only_from should use numerical IP address
Summary: only_from should use numerical IP address
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: samba
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Trond Eivind Glomsrxd
QA Contact: Dale Lovelace
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 22995 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-10-09 16:37 UTC by Tim Waugh
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:29 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-10-16 17:25:23 UTC
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Description Tim Waugh 2000-10-09 16:37:05 UTC 
/etc/xinetd.d/swat currently has:

	only_from = localhost

This causes xinetd to do a reverse name lookup for each connection on that
service to see if it's canonical name is 'localhost'.  For better security
it should read:

	only_from = 127.0.0.1
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-10-16 17:01:53 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16573 ***
Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2000-10-16 17:09:10 UTC 
No, this is something different: it's a security problem (DNS spoofing) rather
than a confused application.
Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2000-10-16 17:25:20 UTC 
It's the same fix, however. :)
Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2000-10-16 17:33:25 UTC 
... and it's fixed in -22.
Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 2001-01-18 23:19:50 UTC 
*** Bug 22995 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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