From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 1 11:19:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (ekgr-dsl6-t65.citlink.net [207.173.251.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19E2237B405 for ; Sat, 1 Jun 2002 11:19:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from TAGALONG (unknown [192.168.1.27]) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with SMTP id D85D1EE540 for ; Sat, 1 Jun 2002 11:19:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <002901c20998$e24d7040$1b01a8c0@TAGALONG> From: "Drew Tomlinson" To: Subject: Security Messages re: hosts.allow? Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 11:19:35 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I found the following in my daily security email: blacklamb.mykitchentable.net kernel log messages: > Jun 1 01:33:15 blacklamb sshd[30021]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 23: host name/address mismatch: 210.59.224.42 != server1.camelweb.com.tw > Jun 1 01:33:15 blacklamb sshd[30022]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 23: host name/address mismatch: 210.59.224.42 != server1.camelweb.com.tw I checked my hosts.allow file and line 23 is the default: ALL : ALL : allow I have not changed hosts.allow from the default. What do the above messages mean and what should I do about them (if anything)? Thanks, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message