Re: How to stop SSH doing reverse lookup?
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Martin Dickopp wrote:
> Chuk Goodin <chukgoodin@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > > putting SSH: <ComputerX hostname> in hosts.allow
> > > putting ALL: <ComputerX hostname> in hosts.allow
>
as previously mentioned, it's sshd: not ssh:
ssh will do reverse dns lookup when:
/etc/hosts.allow
sshd : paranoid
- or -
/etc/hosts.deny
sshd : paranoid
all : paranoid
"paranoid" will for the reverse lookup
- you can use the allow/deny with "except" and
do the double negative too
c ya
alvin
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