Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 10:34:43 -0500 From: Jon <jon@state.net> To: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net>, David Daugherty <doc@wcug.wwu.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rev DNS on SSh Message-ID: <39899113.D159A89A@state.net> References: <Pine.GHP.4.21.0008030947330.5537-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
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Jan Grant wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Paul Herman wrote: > > > On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, David Daugherty wrote: > > > > > How can I stop reverse dns on every ssh? I've looked in the /etc/ssh and > > > /etc/ssh2 and can't find any lines pertaining to this. > > > > What's the problem? This is a good thing (for security, anyway.) Well, not always. I had to disable it because the daemon was running behind a firewall w/ NAT. After upgrading sshd, I didn't check the config file, and it defaulted to 'RequireReverseMapping' to yes, which would deny every attempt at a connection. It took me a sec to figure it out (and the -v flag :) Jon > Are you referring to > RequireReverseMapping yes > in sshd2_config? > > -- > 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 > No, procmail is _not_ your friend. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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