Able to ftp anonymously to server1.example.com inspite of incorrect /etc/resolv.conf

Mr. ameya sathe · 11-25-2008, 06:32 AM

O.S. : RedHat Enterprise Linux 5
The network is as follows:
example.com 192.168.0.0/24
server1.example.com 192.168.0.254
1. ftp service is configured to accept anonymous logins.
2. The file /etc/resolv.conf contained the following entries...

Code:

search example.com
nameserver 192.168.10.254

3. /etc/host.conf contained the following entries

Code:

order hosts,bind

4. /etc/hosts contained the following code

Code:

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain  localhost
::1     localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6

Now; according to my logic...I should not

be able to ftp anonymously to server1.example.com because of the incorrect entry in /etc/resolv.conf.

But; still I can ftp anonymously to server1.example.com