Re: /etc/hosts IP address requirement?????

Ernesto Hernandez Novich wrote: > > Actually, the only requirement is that the host system can perform a > reverse lookup to the originating system. You don't need to put the names > in /etc/hosts, as long as your name server/resolver can query back the > originating system. Of course, if you have security policies imposed at > the /usr/adm/inetd.sec level, you won't let (or will let) some hosts in > to your service.snip, snip... E. - let me see if I'm clear on this...I would need to have DNS running on my server, and it would/could reverse lookup to the client PC to get the hostname (of the PC) I assume??? Does this require anything but the typical IP stack facilities on the PC client??? Thanks for any help - this might be going somewhere...gm.