only_from = 127.0.0.1

[Christian Schneemann]

On Thursday April 23 2009 01:01:41 pm Martyn wrote:
> I'm not being ignorant but as I complete novice on none windows boxes, how
> do I  put "setting 3" in front of the line
Sorry, it should be #, no 3 (dumb shift mistake).

just comment the line out by putting the # in the front of the line:
#         only_from       = 127.0.0.1


Sorry for that,
 Christian


>
> Many thanks for your reply
>
> Martyn
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Schneemann [mailto:cschneemann at suse.de]
> Sent: 23 April 2009 11:05
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] only_from = 127.0.0.1
>
> On Thursday April 23 2009 11:07:06 am Martyn wrote:
> > Can anybody tell me how I use domains names instead of IP address in
> > the nrpe file, I have read somewhere that you can use tcp wrappers
> > which I have tried.
> >
> > My nrpe file looks like this:
> >
> > # default: on
> > # description: NRPE (Nagios Remote Plugin Executor) service nrpe {
> >         flags           = REUSE
> >         socket_type     = stream
> >         port            = 5666
> >         wait            = no
> >         user            = nagios
> >         group           = nagios
> >         server          = /usr/local/nagios/bin/nrpe
> >         server_args     = -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg --inetd
> >         log_on_failure  += USERID
> >         disable         = no
> >         only_from       = 127.0.0.1
> > }
> >
> >
> > And my hosts.allow looks like
> >
> > #
> > # hosts.allow   This file describes the names of the hosts which are
> > #               allowed to use the local INET services, as decided
> > #               by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server.
> > #
> > nrpe: 17.0.0.1 monitor.domain.co.uk
> >
> > But I'm still getting Could not complete SSL handshake, is the above
> > configuration correct or can I not use domain names instead of IP's
>
> You have to adjust the "olny_from" line, your hosts.allow allows 17.0.0.1
> to connect to nrpe, but xinetd rejects the request, because you just allows
> connections from 127.0.0.1 (or is there the 2 missing in the hosts.allow
> line?)
>
> you can simply write the domain name to only_from.
>
> If you use the hosts.allow you could even exclude the only_from line from
> the xinetd configuration by setting 3 in front of the line.
>
> Greetings,
> 	Christian
>
> > Thanks
> >
> > Martyn
>
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