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1995-10-25 - Re: Does your software?

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From: fc@all.net (Dr. Frederick B. Cohen)
To: jsw@netscape.com (Jeff Weinstein)
Message Hash: b26821fafc7759e141f06801f5a7e3b5b31b143472ef7ef11fa2ca216a870b25
Message ID: <9510251119.AA23193@all.net>
Reply To: <308D82CA.7AB2@netscape.com>
UTC Datetime: 1995-10-25 11:22:42 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 25 Oct 95 04:22:42 PDT

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From: fc@all.net (Dr. Frederick B. Cohen)
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 95 04:22:42 PDT
To: jsw@netscape.com (Jeff Weinstein)
Subject: Re: Does your software?
In-Reply-To: <308D82CA.7AB2@netscape.com>
Message-ID: <9510251119.AA23193@all.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
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>   Is this the server running on port 80 of all.net?  I've tried connecting
> to it quite a few times at various times of day and night, using
> netscape and telnet, and all I ever get in response to 'GET /'
> is a closed connection.

Could it be that you are from IP addresses 198.95.250.69?

If so, your firewall (or other mechanism) is presenting an incomplete
falsehood about the mapping between your host name and your IP address.

Oct 24 21:19:15 all in.thttpd[20865]: warning: can't verify hostname: gethostbyname(unknown.netscape.com) failed
Oct 24 21:19:15 all in.thttpd[20865]: refused connect from 198.95.250.69
Oct 24 21:19:46 all in.thttpd[20919]: warning: can't verify hostname: gethostbyname(unknown.netscape.com) failed
Oct 24 21:19:46 all in.thttpd[20919]: refused connect from 198.95.250.69
Oct 24 21:19:58 all in.thttpd[20945]: warning: can't verify hostname: gethostbyname(unknown.netscape.com) failed
Oct 24 21:19:58 all in.thttpd[20945]: refused connect from 198.95.250.69

My server refuses connections from hosts when the IP address doesn't
match to the host name.  This is a common method for reducing the level
of address forgery on the Internet.  Please ask your firewall manager to
repair the firewall so we can authenticate you.

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