From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 15 7:59:27 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E736737B401 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 07:59:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from freebsd.rf0.com (ns.rf0.com [198.78.66.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B19343F79 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 07:59:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rghf@fsck.me.uk) Received: from freebsd ([198.78.66.18] helo=localhost) by freebsd.rf0.com with esmtp (Exim 4.02) id 18Ypwm-0000bN-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 15:59:20 +0000 Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 15:59:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Rus Foster X-X-Sender: rghf@freebsd.rf0.com To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: SSH Reverse DNS Lookup Message-ID: <20030115155720.P27295-100000@freebsd.rf0.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi All, Basically a two fold question. 1) How do I force sshd to do a reverse DNS lookup and deny the connection if it fails? 2) I run a public shell account server. Do you think I'm asking for trouble by turning the option on? Cheers Rus -- http://www.65535.net | MSN: support@65535.net Lifetime UNIX logins - Web Hosting Offsite Backups - Remote System Monitoring To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message