Re: [Condor-users] PERMISSION DENIED to unknown user from host and connection to astro.cs.wisc.edu

["Fabrice Bouye" <FabriceB@xxxxxxx>]

> Here's my bet: Your DNS (or equivalent) isn't set up properly.
> 
> When Condor checks addresses against the HOSTALLOW settings, 
> it uses DNS to check things out, even if you list IP 
> addresses. You need to make sure that you can resolve IP 
> address to names, and the reverse (names to IP addresses).
> 
> This is a common cause of the permission denied errors.
> 
> -alain

Thanks for the tip but I've verified that name resolution works OK in both directions (name <=> numerics) for all nodes as well as for the master controller itself.
There was a DNS problem that prevented one of the Linux node to connect initially though but this was fixed some times ago.

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