Why so we see DNS requests when accessing a service, when using tcpwrappers, while we only use IPs in the tcpwrappers config?
Issue
"ALL:[::1]" was defined in the first line of /etc/hosts.allow. When the "snmpwalk -v 1 -c public
We think that name resolution to DNS server should not occur because we defined only IP address(IPv6) in /etc/hosts.allow. When we defined only IP address(IPv4) in /etc/hosts.allow, the request did not occur.
Please tell us the reason why name resolution to DNS server occurred when only the IP address(IPv6) was defined in /etc/hosts.allow.
# cat /etc/hosts.allow
ALL : [::1]
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- tcp wrappers used
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