Can someone please explain?

[David Botham]

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> > ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> > china-stone.net.        1H IN A         62.190.185.65
> >
> > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> > china-stone.net.        1H IN NS        dns9.register.com.
> > china-stone.net.        1H IN NS        dns10.register.com.
> >
> > ;; Total query time: 5023 msec
> > ;; FROM: nsca1 to SERVER: default -- 216.154.198.178
> > ;; WHEN: Fri Dec 27 19:23:54 2002
> > ;; MSG SIZE  sent: 33  rcvd: 100
> >
> >
> > >
> > > So far I have not got paranoid anout hosts.allow probably because
> > others
> > > things have taken a higher priority :-)
> > >
> > > Advice please
> > >
> > > David
> > > Systems Administrator
> > > Vizion2000.net
> >
> >
> >
> But why this warning on my DNS which does not serve theoted domain?

It is not your name server process (named) that is reporting the error,
it is tcpwrappers...  tcpwrappers will perform a consistency check on
host to ip and ip to host resolution.  It is complaining about the fact
that they do not match...

See the man page for tcpd:

# man tcpd


Dave...


> David