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Old 01-18-2008, 05:46 PM
Dave Uhring
 
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Default Re: Who Are You? Remote Login Only if System In /etc/hosts.

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:27:25 -0700, george.e.sulliva wrote:

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> Dave Uhring wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:15:10 -0700, george.e.sulliva wrote:
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>> > The only way, so far, I can get past the "Who are you" message is
>> > to put my IP address directly in /etc/hosts. What am I forgetting?

>>
>> Provide reverse lookup in your DNS server.


> I double checked and the reverse was present.


Excuse my doubts, but did you remove the /etc/hosts entry for your PC and
then, on a terminal running on the Linux server execute

# getent hosts your_pc's_IP_address

On a terminal running on the Linux server did you attempt

# nslookup your_pc's_IP_address

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