From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 8:50:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA53937B581 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 08:50:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Received: from bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (dial-213-168-64-180.netcologne.de [213.168.64.180]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA03835; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 17:50:04 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost.security.at12.de [127.0.0.1]) by bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e73Fntb01860; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 17:49:55 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 17:49:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman To: Jon Cc: Jan Grant , David Daugherty , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rev DNS on SSh In-Reply-To: <39899113.D159A89A@state.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Jon wrote: > > > > How can I stop reverse dns on every ssh? I've looked in the /etc/ssh and > > > > /etc/ssh2 and can't find any lines pertaining to this. > > > > > > What's the problem? This is a good thing (for security, anyway.) > > Well, not always. I had to disable it because the daemon was > running behind a firewall w/ NAT. Nothing a properly configured local dns server couldn't fix. By the way, I should point out, the original poster wasn't using the sshd which is distributed with FreeBSD, but the ssh2 port. OpenSSH doesn't have the 'RequireReverseMapping' option, because it is always on. -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message