On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> It would seem useful if the "-bh" also showed that it tried an ident
> lookup. (I assume it would be directly after "looking up host name" and
> before "host in host_reject", since host_reject can also be matched to the
> RFC1413 identification.)
There's a problem there. If host A makes a connection to host B, then it
makes sense for host B to make an ident call back to host A asking "who
made this call?". When you are running with -bh on host B, there is no
incoming TCP/IP connection, so an ident call cannot be made.
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