Do I need to worry about these logs?

[Jonathan Chen]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 03:14:56PM -0500, Gerard Samuel wrote:
> This is a fresh install of 5.3 from last week.
> Granted the script-kiddies has been working to break in via ssh,
> when I was running 4.10, I've never seen these types of logs before.
> Any clues, would be appreciated.
> Thanks.
> 
> -- snip of /var/logs/auth.log --
> Nov 16 09:06:56 hivemind sshd[7611]: reverse mapping checking 
> getaddrinfo for 203-150-17-44.inter.net.th failed - POSSIBLE BREAKIN 

Just means that the reverse-DNS entry for the incoming ssh connection
hasn't been configured correctly.
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