SSH login issue

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Mon Mar 28 10:33:45 PST 2005


On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 02:31:46AM +0000, Michael Hopkins wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi all
> 
> Anyone know why this is happening when I remotely ssh in to a 5.3p5 amd64
> server called Athlon?
> 
>  reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for athlon failed - POSSIBLE BREAKIN
>  ATTEMPT!
> 
> It lets me in fine after I supply the password.

It's highly unlikely this has anything do with amd64.  This error is
usually caused by failure to have matchine forward and reverse DNS
entries.  I'm not exactly sure what needs to match to avoid this error.

-- Brooks

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