sshd dieing? after applying FreeBSD-SA-03:12.openssh

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On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Devon Sean McCullough wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 00:02:33 +0100 Steven Hartland asked this question
> but no answer was posted.  The trouble is likely no client reverse DNS
> either because it is missing or slow.  Adding the client to /etc/hosts
> on the server seems at first to do nothing but after a minute or so it
> stops hanging and asks for a password.  Could be a coincidence though.
>
> To recap:
> $ ssh -v me at my-freebsd-5.1-RELEASE-box
> OpenSSH_3.4p1+CAN-2004-0175, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090609f
> ....
> debug1: Remote protocol version 1.99, remote software version OpenSSH_3.6.1p1 FreeBSD-20030423
> debug1: match: OpenSSH_3.6.1p1 FreeBSD-20030423 pat OpenSSH*
> Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
> debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.4p1+CAN-2004-0175
> ....
> debug1: got SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT
> <---Here the client hangs until timeout.
>
> To debug: kill the server process and run # sshd -ddde
> ....
> debug3: Trying to reverse map address ...
> <---Here the server hangs until timeout.

Dude, that was 2 years ago in 2003 the year now is 2005
and the current date is 'Wed Apr 20 12:32:31 UTC 2005'
so umm, am I living in the future or are you dwelling on
the past ???.

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