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Re: ssh keyscanning!?



On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 10:31:02AM +0000, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> The firewalling I have in place only allows incoming connections for
> ssh. UDP is locked down so only DNS works there. And by mistake (fixed now), 
> it also allowed incoming DHCP requests from the internet.

Careful here.  The first DHCP request from a freshly booted machine
doesn't carry a local IP address (but either 0.0.0.0 or random crap).
So make sure you don't filter by IP address, but by interface at most.

Daniel.



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