turn off reverse mapping checking?This is a discussion on turn off reverse mapping checking? within the Networking forums, part of the Help category; I now have a new ISP and when I ssh into my home computer I'm getting this message: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for [ ] failed - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT! ... | ||||||||
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08-27-2008, 10:34 AM
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 turn off reverse mapping checking? I now have a new ISP and when I ssh into my home computer I'm getting this message: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for [ It's not a big deal but can the messages be turned off? I've tried StrictHostKeyChecking no CheckHostIP no VerifyHostKeyDNS no in /etc/ssh/ssh_config and UseDNS no in /etc/ssh/sshd_config (on the remote system). Bob T.  |
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08-28-2008, 09:04 PM
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| Re: turn off reverse mapping checking? On 27 Aug 2008 14:34:04 GMT, Bob Tennent wrote: > I now have a new ISP and when I ssh into my home computer I'm getting > this message: > > reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for > [ > > It's not a big deal but can the messages be turned off? Re-starting sshd with option -u0 is supposed to do this, but it doesn't work for me. A simple brute-force solution is to use (a script that does) ssh host 2> /dev/null Bob T. |
