Re: ssh without reverse DNS lookup

["Alan James" <Alan@rangercom.com>]

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 09:02:17 -0300, Pedro Zorzenon Neto <pzn@terra.com.br>
wrote:

>   I've looked in "man sshd" and "man ssh" and I didn't see any
>configuration option which bypass the reverse lookup, enabling
>connections from machines without reverse DNS lookup. How can I do
>this? (I don't want to add each machine to /etc/hosts)

in /etc/ssh/sshd_config:

ReverseMappingCheck no

>   Which are the security problems when I bypassing this lookup?

I can't think of any.