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Date:      Tue, 9 Apr 2002 18:50:49 -0400
From:      "Peter C. Lai" <sirmoo@cowbert.2y.net>
To:        "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>
Cc:        security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sshd warning---a lil' help?
Message-ID:  <20020409185049.A17491@cowbert.2y.net>
In-Reply-To: <002301c1dfc6$e21aa440$70ec910c@daleco>; from kdk@daleco.biz on Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 08:03:02AM -0500
References:  <002301c1dfc6$e21aa440$70ec910c@daleco>

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a is true. the message is coming from hosts.allow, which checks for rdns as
a (weak) signal of spoofed packets.  You can deny these connections by
by turning on:

ALL : PARANOID : RFC931 20 : deny
# Provide some protection against clients using a forged source IP address


b would have sshd report "password" or keypair "accepted for username".

c would have shown that user being rejected

consequently, we don't know from what you've given us to know
if someone logged in successfully to sshd runing with pid 34375
at that time :)

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 08:03:02AM -0500, Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
> Apr  9 07:50:00 elisha sshd[34375]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 23:
> can't verify hostname: getaddrinfo(gbrdialin, AF_INET$) Failed
> 
> This computer ---
> 
>      a - has incorrect or NO reverse DNS ?
>      b - tried to authenticate via ssh login and succeeded?
>      c - tried to authenticate via ssh login and failed?
>      d - other
> 
> 
> TIA, Kevin Kinsey
> 
> 
> 
> 
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