>We would like to turn off the reverse DNS resolution checking that amanda
>does, because frankly, it's a nuisance for us. ...
>... In particular, even if
>it's just for amrecover/amindexd, is there an easy way to do this (i.e.,
>recompile), or do we need to modify the source. ...
In essence, you want to remove all gethostbyaddr calls, right?
You're effectively turning off all Amanda security since amandad uses
that to do a lookup by IP address to get back the connecting host name
to do the search in .amandahosts. To do that, just reconfigure/rebuild
using --without-bsd-security and it will let anything in.
There is also some code in amindexd.c that does a gethostbyaddr but the
result does not appear to be used. You'll still have to go in there
and comment it out, though.
>If this is a braindead idea, I'd like to know that, too.
It bothers me to turn off security, but I don't know your setup.
>Carey Jung
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
