Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 15:16:38 +0000 From: Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSHD Broken After Update Message-ID: <20041108151638.GA92346@catflap.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <20041108072636.52AA943D1D@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <200411080819.23437.4711@chello.at> <20041108072636.52AA943D1D@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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--J/dobhs11T7y2rNN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 06:26:32PM +1100, Steven Adams wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I updated my server to 5.3 from 5.2.1 yesterday. >=20 > I did encounter a few problem but managed to get by them by editing a few > make files etc.. >=20 > All is working except sshd. >=20 > When I login it get this error in my logs >=20 > reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for IP failed - possible breakin >=20 > Does anyone know what this means? Ive looked everywhere on google.com > without any luck :( sshd is performing a reverse DNS query on your (client) hostname. It is getting back a different name from the DNS than the client presented. If you don't have control of the reverse DNS mapping for your host, you can disable this behaviour by setting `UseDNS no' in=20 /etc/sshd/sshd_config and restarting sshd. The message is defined in /usr/src/crypto/openssh/canohost.c=20 HTH Dan --=20 Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1 BE8F _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBj43RhvzwOpChvo8RAjsQAKCSVFYvfMtTV5D8YkA+WuwQQYLuhwCgkhMH PaeVkGfRurMSgAVxGy2bkZM= =NKGL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN--
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