SSHD Broken After Update

[Daniel Bye]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 06:26:32PM +1100, Steven Adams wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I updated my server to 5.3 from 5.2.1 yesterday.
> 
> I did encounter a few problem but managed to get by them by editing a few
> make files etc..
> 
> All is working except sshd.
> 
> When I login it get this error in my logs
> 
> reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for IP failed - possible breakin

> 
> Does anyone know what this means? Ive looked everywhere on google.com
> without any luck :(

sshd is performing a reverse DNS query on your (client) hostname.  It is
getting back a different name from the DNS than the client presented.
If you don't have control of the reverse DNS mapping for your host,
you can disable this behaviour by setting `UseDNS no' in 
/etc/sshd/sshd_config and restarting sshd.

The message is defined in /usr/src/crypto/openssh/canohost.c 

HTH

Dan

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