On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 06:26:32PM +1100, Steven Adams wrote: > Hi, > > I updated my server to 5.3 from 5.2.1 yesterday. > > I did encounter a few problem but managed to get by them by editing a few > make files etc.. > > All is working except sshd. > > When I login it get this error in my logs > > reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for IP failed - possible breakin
> > Does anyone know what this means? Ive looked everywhere on google.com > without any luck :( sshd is performing a reverse DNS query on your (client) hostname. It is getting back a different name from the DNS than the client presented. If you don't have control of the reverse DNS mapping for your host, you can disable this behaviour by setting `UseDNS no' in /etc/sshd/sshd_config and restarting sshd. The message is defined in /usr/src/crypto/openssh/canohost.c HTH Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1 BE8F _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \
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