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Date:      Fri, 31 Jan 2003 18:18:15 -0800
From:      Greg White <gregw-freebsd-security@greg.cex.ca>
To:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SSHD suddenly takes SIX MINUTES to authenticate
Message-ID:  <20030131181815.A42597@greg.cex.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20030201015129.GA27949@rfc822.net>; from pde@rfc822.net on Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 07:51:29PM -0600
References:  <v04210102ba60a5a98b9c@[192.168.1.27]> <3E3B1D71.21CFBD42@ursine.com> <20030201015129.GA27949@rfc822.net>

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On Fri Jan 01/31/03, 2003 at 07:51:29PM -0600, Pete Ehlke wrote:
> Right. And the DNS for krb5-realm.com is, to put it politely, a mess.
> 
> ISTR seeing something about changes to krb5-realm.com on nanog a couple
> of weeks ago. You may want to check the archives.

And if you owned and operated krb5-realm.com, you wouldn't do what they
appear to have done? This massive bug in openssh must have bit these
poor guys pretty hard....

> Or, y'know. Upgrade openssh ;)

And I'm sure than when you do, the poor suckers who O&O that got
absolutely _fscked_ by this bit of silliness will thank you. :)

Were I them, I might have simply NXDOMAIN'd the whole domain, if it were
possible...Imagine the traffic!

-- 
Greg White

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