On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 12:27, Tim Prendergast wrote: > There is also no iptables installed, so firewall is out of the equation. > There should be no DNS involved because every host it talks to in the > process is in the /etc/hosts file, and the /etc/host.conf is 'order > hosts,bind'. My /etc/nsswitch.conf has files then dns listed as the args > after hosts... Technically, this should disable any lookups outside of > resolving in the hosts file for everything in the hosts file. We all know > that isn't always the case, which is why I'm asking here on the list. TCP > wrappers should be minimal, considering I just opened up a ALL:ALL in > hosts.allow to eliminate that possibility. If it is practical, strace xinetd through accepting a connection (with -f to see if your rsh is doing any checks of its own after the connection is up). -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx