PUzzling sshd behaviour

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri Sep 5 08:46:48 PDT 2003


On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:32:52AM -0400, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote:

> Anyone else see this type of thing before? I did some research on the 
> lists but all I ever saw was a problem with reading resolv.conf. That's 
> not the case here, because it's definitely picking up the nameserver 
> from that file.

The fact that sshd requires reverse IP resolution is well-known
behaviour.  It's probably the most common FAQ about sshd ("Why is my
login taking 60 seconds to present the password prompt?").

Kris
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