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Date:      Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:06:41 -0800
From:      "jdow" <jdow@earthlink.net>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: sshd BREAKIN ?
Message-ID:  <155301c65478$84e97960$0225a8c0@Wednesday>
References:  <20060331034841.1387.qmail@web35812.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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From: "Tang Ho Yim" <hoyimtang@yahoo.com>

>I got a error messages from /var/log/auth.log which is about sshd......
>
>  .....sshd : reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for core-01.148.rdcw.com failed - 
> POSSIBLE BREAKIN ATTEMPT !
>
>  all my sshd_config is default setting except I have change to "PasswordAuthentication 
> NO , PermitEmptyPasswords NO , and ChallengeResponseAuthentication NO"
>
>  Is that I am being hack ?
>  last command show who is login before but it seem ok....
>  What should I do ?

Somebody is trying; and, that somebody is failing. You need something
akin to "DenyHosts" (which works on tcpwrappers) or one of the other
BSD compatible tools of a roughly similar sort. I'd suggest wandering
through the list archive. In the last month or two we've been over this
before, repeatedly.

{^_^} 




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