Re: sshd: can't turn off reverse mapping check

[Philippe Marzouk <phil-antispam@ozigo.org>]

On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 02:37:47PM -0400, dzpost@dedekind.net wrote:
> I'm running ssh from woody (3.4p1-1.woody.3).  When I try to connect
> from a host which has no reverse DNS entry, sshd refuses the
> connection.  From ethereal, I see that immediately before closing the
> ssh connection, the server is issuing a reverse DNS query, which
> returns "no such name".
> 
> I had the default sshd_config, which had an entry for
> ReverseMappingCheck commented out.  I tried uncommenting and changing
> the value from "yes" to "no".  This had no effect.
> 

Verify you do NOT have this line in /etc/hosts.deny

ALL: PARANOID

Philippe