Re: How to stop SSH doing reverse lookup?

[Martin Dickopp <martin-deb@zero-based.org>]

Chuk Goodin <chukgoodin@gmail.com> writes:

>     > putting SSH: <ComputerX hostname> in hosts.allow
>     > putting ALL: <ComputerX hostname> in hosts.allow
>
>     The service name provided by the SSH daemon is not "SSH", but "sshd".
>     You have to put "sshd: <ComputerX hostname>" (without the quotes, of
>     course) in hosts.allow for the statement to take effect.
>
>     However, this will probably not help in this case. Try to put
>     "UseDNS no" in your sshd_config file. See "man sshd_config" for details.
>
> Thanks, but this didn't help. Same error message.

Run the ssh client with option -v or even -vv. This will show you what
authentication methods are tried and at what stage the authentication
fails.

Martin