Re: zeus sshd[1600]: refused connect from <DUDE USE A SUBJECT>

[Hanasaki JiJi <hanasaki@hanaden.com>]

probably just have "paranoid" in your /etc/hosts.deny and its not 
allowing hosts that dont have a reverse DNS

USE SUBJECTS IN YOUR EMAIL

Ricardo Sousa wrote:
> hi. I'm getting some alerts in my log files, and i getting worry.
> The logs are some like this:
> ...
> Apr  8 01:08:37 zeus sshd[9972]: warning: /etc/hosts.deny, line 15:
> can't verify hostname: gethostbyname(ip.domain.pt) failed
> Apr  8 01:08:37 zeus sshd[9972]: refused connect from 212.113.170.192
> Apr  8 01:09:06 zeus sshd[1600]: warning: /etc/hosts.deny, line 15:
> can't verify hostname: gethostbyname(ip.domain.pt) failed
> Apr  8 01:09:06 zeus sshd[1600]: refused connect from 212.113.170.192
>
> well, what this attack (i think that i can call it that), it's trying to
> do?
> Thanks in advantage,
> Ricardo

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