On 05/04/13 01:57, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 07:26, Martijn van Duren wrote: >> For a lot of cases this isn't a problem. But there are a couple of >> instances where the domain name resolves to something a little to >> generic to be useful to determine it's origin and hence I'm not able to >> decide if it's a legit connection or not, let alone being able to place >> it in my firewall. >> To fix this for myself I made this minor patch to retrieve the ip >> address instead of the the reverse lookup. This appears to be the same >> behavior as sshd shows. > > I think this is wise. Reverse lookups are not really useful imo. If > someone cares, they can always do them later. >
regarding the concept, not the patch...agreed. I have OFTEN wished I had the raw IP address in a log, I've rarely (I want to say "never") wished I had a reverse DNS lookup. Nick.
