On 2018-06-21, Maximilian Pichler <[email protected]> wrote: > (1) Why does ftpd need to make a *forward* DNS lookup (assuming I'm > reading the query correctly) of the machine name?
If there's no matching forward DNS for the name in reverse DNS, it can't be trusted, so logging such a name would be misleading. > (2) Generally, when setting the machine name with hostname(1), should > it be suffixed with a domain name? Generally that would be the usual way.

