Problems with security files, not connecting

[Ron Mansolino]

(ok, it's been a while since I compiled it)
Is tcpwrapper support an option?
Do you have 127.0.0.1 in your hosts.allow as "ALL : 127.0.0.1 : allow"

Does netstat say anything is listening on port 4321?
(what happens when you "telnet 127.0.0.1 4321"
did you make a user called rwhois, and does it have read/write permission on the directory and data files?



> Hello to everyone on this list.
> 
> I have compiled RWhoisD on FreeBSD 5.3, and am having a lot of problems getting connecting to the daemon.  I am assuming it is some problem with the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files.  
> 
> Looking at this I can see that it would be a very good thing to be able to deny access to the RwhoisD server, because  it looks like you can add and delete records remotely.  However, I can't even attach to the server from the local host.
> 
> Is there some interaction with DNS that needs to be set up in order to allow for the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files to work properly?  Also, I don't have tcpwrapper installed on this machine.  Is that necessary?
> 
> Robert Lubbers
> 
> 
> Here are my files:
> 
> RWHOISD.CONF
> ***************************************************
> root-dir: /data0/local/rwhois
> bin-path: bin
> auth-area-file: /data0/local/rwhois/rwhoisd.auth_area
> directive-file: /data0/local/rwhois/rwhoisd.dir
> x-directive-file: rwhoisd.x.dir
> max-hits-ceiling: 60
> register-spool:register_spool
> punt-file: rwhoisd.root
> local-host: tweek.mylocation.mydomain.net
> local-port: 4321
> security-allow: /data0/local/rwhois/rwhoisd.allow
> security-deny: /data0/local/rwhois/rwhoisd.deny
> deadman-time: 100
> server-type: standalone
> userid: rwhois
> pid-file: rwhoisd.pid
> server-contact: robert.lubbers at mydomain.net
> use-syslog: NO
> default-log-file: rwhoisd.log
> warn-log-file:      rwhois.info.log
> notice-log-file:    rwhois.info.log
> info-log-file:      rwhois.info.log
> debug-log-file:     rwhois.info.log
> verbosity: 7 # info
> 
> RWHOISD.ALLOW
> ********************************************************
> xfer: ALL
> rwhoisd:ALL
> 
> RWHOISD.DENY
> ********************************************************
> x-date: ALL


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