Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 11:23:08 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: David Daugherty <doc@wcug.wwu.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sshd not letting me in from dhcp Message-ID: <Pine.GHP.4.21.0006131120280.18267-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20000612075220.A275@dialin-client.earthlink.net>
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> > > On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 11:33:14PM -0700, David Daugherty wrote: > > > > I have a laptop which gets it's IP via dhcp. When I try to ssh into a > > > > server on my local network the server drops the connection. If I try from > > > > a machine with a static IP it works fine. My hosts.allow has > > > > ALL : ALL : allow > > > > as the first line. What is forcing the ssh to drop the connection from the > > > > dhcp'd laptop? The line from my messages looks like: > > > > Jun 10 15:27:24 truman sshd[3989]: Connection from 192.168.1.246 denied. Authentication as user x was attempted. Do you have a PTR record for the DHCP-allocated address? If not, you'll have to get sshd to permit machines without the reverse-lookup check. With an ssh.org daemon, this means RequireReverseMapping no in sshd2_config. Probably something similar for OpenSSH? jan -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Semantic rules, OK? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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