I'm running ssh from woody (3.4p1-1.woody.3). When I try to connect from a host which has no reverse DNS entry, sshd refuses the connection. From ethereal, I see that immediately before closing the ssh connection, the server is issuing a reverse DNS query, which returns "no such name".
I had the default sshd_config, which had an entry for ReverseMappingCheck commented out. I tried uncommenting and changing the value from "yes" to "no". This had no effect. Then I noticed that the sshd_config man page doesn't mention ReverseMappingCheck, but it does list the keyword VerifyReverseMapping. So I tried using that instead, but again it makes no difference whether it's set to "yes" or "no" or commented out. The server is still doing a reverse DNS query and closing the connection when the query fails. This is happening when the client is on a different subnet than the server. When I connect from a host on the same subnet as the server, no reverse DNS query is performed. Am I missing something? Is this a bug, and if so is there a way around it? Thanks. -David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
