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

[David Zelinsky <dzpost@dedekind.net>]

I wrote:

> I'm running sshd from woody's ssh package (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".
>
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>
> This is happening when the client is on a different subnet than the
> server.  When I connect from a host on the same subnet as the server,
> no reverse DNS query is performed.

That last statement was bogus: the subnet wasn't the issue.  No
reverse DNS query was done because that client host was listed in
/etc/hosts on the server.

-David