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.


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