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|    mark lewis to Kent Timm    |
|    IP logging utility..    |
|    22 Aug 14 09:00:33    |
       KT> Kind of the same, but I just write one line, looks like a normal RA        KT> entry               as long as it does what you need it to do, it is great! ;)               KT> Seems like NetFoss puts strangnes in the *R for resolved name some        KT> times, so I want to address that before I make it available.              if i might speak as a network security admin and specialist for a moment...              do not trust dns resolved hostnames... by that, i mean that IPs can't be faked       not and have the connection work... IPs are the only truth to where the       connection is coming from... the resolved names can easily be faked if one has       control over their DNS...              to elaborate on that, i have systems trying to drop spam off here... some of       them return "localhost" as the resolved name when i do a lookup... their       intention is to confuse me and make me think that my own system is trying to       do the spamming... some others return "." which doesn't say much of       anything... i've seen other stuff, too, which just isn't right and shouldn't       be being done... given some time, i can easily provide examples of IPs which       you can lookup and see what they return ;)              if it is possible to disable netfoss' hostname lookups, i would most likely do       so... mainly to speed up the connection instead of having to wait on the rdns       to complete... but also for the above reason... i learned that lesson not only       from spammers but also others trying to hack into my web server years ago...       they do the same thing and at the time i was recording the FQDN that was       returned... i finally turned that off and started recording only IP numbers       and the real culprits were revealed...               KT> It's nothing fancy, just something I wanted in my logs. and the         KT> IP0n does change to refect the *N               good deal :)              )\/(ark               * Origin: North American RemoteAccess Support 919-774-5930 (1:3634/12)    |
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