Re: [LUG] pop3d (inetd) problems,

[Simon Waters <Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Robin Cornelius wrote:
>
> no other errors
> anywhere.  I had this when i first set the servers up some years ago
and it
> went away when i either added a /etc/hosts entry for my pc or a dns
entry.
> there for i assume it is a reverse look up, no host associated with ip
> address type problem.
>
> What can i do to make the inetd services accessable without /etc/hosts
or dns?

It will either be an option to inetd ("man inetd", and edit
/etc/init.d/inetd, and then a "kill -1 =inetdprocessid=" (where
=inetdprocessid= is replaced with the relevant PID).

Or the inetd.conf entry may be calling a paranoid "tcpd", in which case
you can rewrite the relevant inetd.conf line without the tcpd entry
(more than just deleting tcpd but fairly straight forward).

Alternatively why not just add dummy entries to the host file, crude but
easily understandable ;)

In Bash, as one line.....
for (( i = 128 ; $i < 255 ; i = $i +1 )) ; do echo 192.168.0.$i dhcp$i ;
done >>/etc/hosts
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