Does your software?

Dr. Frederick B. Cohen fc at all.net
Wed Oct 25 04:22:42 PDT 1995


>   Is this the server running on port 80 of all.net?  I've tried connecting
> to it quite a few times at various times of day and night, using
> netscape and telnet, and all I ever get in response to 'GET /'
> is a closed connection.

Could it be that you are from IP addresses 198.95.250.69?

If so, your firewall (or other mechanism) is presenting an incomplete
falsehood about the mapping between your host name and your IP address.

Oct 24 21:19:15 all in.thttpd[20865]: warning: can't verify hostname: gethostbyname(unknown.netscape.com) failed
Oct 24 21:19:15 all in.thttpd[20865]: refused connect from 198.95.250.69
Oct 24 21:19:46 all in.thttpd[20919]: warning: can't verify hostname: gethostbyname(unknown.netscape.com) failed
Oct 24 21:19:46 all in.thttpd[20919]: refused connect from 198.95.250.69
Oct 24 21:19:58 all in.thttpd[20945]: warning: can't verify hostname: gethostbyname(unknown.netscape.com) failed
Oct 24 21:19:58 all in.thttpd[20945]: refused connect from 198.95.250.69

My server refuses connections from hosts when the IP address doesn't
match to the host name.  This is a common method for reducing the level
of address forgery on the Internet.  Please ask your firewall manager to
repair the firewall so we can authenticate you.

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