[ILUG] CVS reverse lookup failure

[John Allen]

On Wednesday 31 March 2004 18:46, Bryan wrote:
> I have a cvspserver setup, which works fine for localhost
>
> CVSROOT=:pserver:beths at localhost:/home/cvsroot
>
> I can do a cvs login as beths on the box locally, but,
>
> CVSROOT=:pserver:beths at 10.100.100.14:/home/cvsroot
>
> on the box 10.100.100.148, gets the connection reset by 10.100.100.14
> and generates this error message in
> /var/log/cvspserver
>
> 04/3/31 at 20:51:09: START: cvspserver pid=17386 from=10.100.100.148
> 04/3/31 at 20:51:09: FAIL: cvspserver address from=10.100.100.148
>
> Reverse lookup failure?
>
> Edited /etc/hosts
>

/etc/hosts does not provide reverse lookup facility. You need a real DNS 
server (probably on 10.100.100.14), than can resolve the reverse lookup for 
you 10.100.100.* range.

> 10.100.100.48 Vader
>
> No effect.
>
> Googling is not turning up alot of information on this one, I could just
> have users ssh into the box, but, that'd be naff.
>
> Has anybody else encountered and fixed this before?
>
> --
> Bryan O'Donoghue
> Embedded Software Engineer
>
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>
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-- 
John Allen,                          mailto:john.allen at dublinux.net
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