From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 8:35:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from state.net (dorthy.state.net [204.75.238.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D276537B77A for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 08:35:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@state.net) Received: from state.net (redoak.state.net [204.75.238.247]) by state.net (8.8.8/8.7.2) with ESMTP id KAA27785; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 10:36:31 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <39899113.D159A89A@state.net> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 10:34:43 -0500 From: Jon X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Grant Cc: Paul Herman , David Daugherty , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rev DNS on SSh References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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