SSH login banner: IP address instead of DNS name

[Chris]

Paul Hoffman wrote:

> At 9:04 PM +0200 7/1/03, David Siebörger wrote:
>
>> At 12:41 PM on Tuesday  1 July 2003, Supote leelasupphakorn wrote:
>>
>>>  > Hi again. When I SSH into my 4.8 box, the first line of the 
>>> banner is:
>>>  > Last login: Mon Jun 30 19:31:44 2003 from 
>>> 15-characters-of-a-host-name
>>>  > That DNS name is truncated to 15 characters. I would much prefer an
>>>  > IP address. What do I need to change to get this?
>>>
>>>  > --Paul Hoffman
>>
>>
>> Run sshd with the -u 15 option.  You can do so by adding this line to
>> /etc/rc.conf:
>>
>>     sshd_flags="-u 15"
>
>
> Perfect, that's exactly what I needed. Thanks!
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try sshd_flags="-u0" instead (man sshd)

This will  show only the IP. In addition, this will halt the DNS lookups

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Best regards,
                 Chris
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