Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 19:11:27 +0200 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> To: Dwayne MacKinnon <Dwayne.MacKinnon@xwave.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: PUzzling sshd behaviour Message-ID: <20030905171125.GA1356@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3F58B9D6.7040102@xwave.com> References: <3F589E94.1080508@xwave.com> <20030905154646.GA59881@rot13.obsecurity.org> <3F58B3F4.3020502@xwave.com> <20030905161030.GC22913@pun.isi.edu> <3F58B9D6.7040102@xwave.com>
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--FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2003.09.05 12:29:10 -0400, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: > Ted Faber wrote: > >On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:04:04PM -0400, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: > > > >>That much I know. I was just wondering why the daemon is trying DNS=20 > >>lookup when the IP in question is listed in /etc/hosts. I thought=20 > >>listings in /etc/hosts would supercede the need for a DNS lookup. Of=20 > >>course, I could be wrong... it wouldn't be the first time. :-) > > > > > >If you haven't you need to check out /etc/host.conf , the file that > >configures the hostname lookup order (at least on 4.8). =20 > >man 5 host.conf will tell you all about it. If you have already > >configured this, you might want to look again. (man -k resolver should > >help you find whatever it is on 5.x - I suspect it's nsswitch.) >=20 > My host.conf is a FreeBSD 4.8 default one: it lists hosts, then bind.=20 > That's why I don't understand why it's doing DNS... there's a listing in= =20 > hosts, and according to host.conf the hosts listing should be found first. Do you use Privilege Separation? That can give interesting results with DNS due to chroot into /var/empty... see the mailing lists archives. --=20 Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/WMO9h9pcDSc1mlERApELAJ9//3JOgPpC7n5qNVx/srvJOIthxgCgsrQ9 W7M3K8IW5k0ZiJvctzbsONA= =SdEC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5--
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