This *really* speeds up tcpd connections since it no longer has to wait for the inevitable identd timeout--the change made a tremendous difference on an ftp server that we all know and love.
:-) Yes. As a brief note: Chris' (formerly ckm@suse.com) handwriting is all over ftp.suse.com since he has built it. He also added some "goodies" to make it administer itself all by itself and to speed things up tremendously (which is needed despite heavy hardware scale).
Of course, you can still selectively do these username lookups if you want to; see hosts_access(5) for more info.
Thanks Chris,
Roman.
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