Re: [hylafax-users] Weirdness

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob Poe wrote:

> Tried connecting over the 'net to the Hylafax server (yes, I opened two
> ports to it) and got 
> "please login with user and pass".
>
> Since I'm using Frog Fax@Mail, and it doesn't do passwords, I put in
> the global "allow" in the hosts.hfaxd file.  
>
> Tried connecting over the 'net and could never get connected.  
>
> Tried connecting at home, and after about 40 seconds it FINALLY let me
> in.  
>
> On a hunch, I put my host in the /etc/hosts with a name.  Tried
> connecting again and it was almost instant.  
>
> Why is it reverse looking up?

For the ability to use hostnames in hosts.hfaxd and for security 
purposes.  See:

 http://bugs.hylafax.org/show_bug.cgi?id=610

> How do I turn this off?

I'm not sure that there's a HylaFAX configuration way to do it.  Maybe 
you can disable things by disabling DNS on the system itself.

> Why was it not letting me connect from over the 'net?

Firewall, maybe.

Thanks,

Lee.


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