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Subject: Re: Re: Premission denied
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>> > Someone at work suggested its a reverse DNS problem... but running
>> > nslookup hostname returns my IP address, and vice versa.
>>
>> The log says there was a reverse DNS problem.  It says it clearly,
>> right there in the log.  Are you suggesting that it's lying?
>
> Funny, but I don't see the letters "DNS" in the log at all :-)
>
> What does /etc/nsswitch.conf say about hosts? Does "files" come before
> "dns"?

files is before dns...

the only entries in my /etc/hosts are...

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.17.4            paris.bim paris

does that look okay?

Gareth


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