Host is not allowed to talk to us!

Marc Powell marc at ena.com
Fri Dec 12 17:58:42 CET 2008


On Dec 12, 2008, at 10:23 AM, Grant Lowe wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm getting a message from the syslog of my nrpe client that says:
>
> Host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is not allowed to talk to us!
>
> In the nrpe.cfg file I have the IP address of the nagios server:
>
> allowed_hosts=127.0.0.1,172.20.40.45

The code around this error is very straightforward and looks like a  
simple address match. Are you sure you have the correct IP and nrpe  
has been restarted? Are you using IPV6 locally?

In any event, putting nrpe into debug mode and watching /var/log/ 
messages should be informative.

--
Marc


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