Stop DH and check (grep) for that host in the WORK_DIR files.  Remove it 
from any file in there.  Also remove it from /etc/hosts/deniedssh.  Then 
restart DH.  Hopefully 
that will prevent sshd from crashing.

Regards,

Phil

On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, LuKreme wrote:

> I've been getting errors like this:
>
> sshd[73005]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 11: can't verify hostname: 
> getaddrinfo(100.117.178.220.broad.static.hf.ah.cndata.com, AF_INET) failed
> kernel: pid 73005 (sshd), uid 0: exited on signal 11
>
> this error popped up on every connection attempt until I temporarily 
> commented out line 11, which is:
>
> ALL : /etc/hosts.deniedssh : deny
>
> None of this gets logged to the denyhosts log; in fact, there is nothing in 
> the last 30 days except for stuff like:
>
> Feb 18 00:00:00 mail newsyslog[50653]: logfile turned over
> Feb 19 00:00:00 mail newsyslog[14874]: logfile turned over
> Feb 17 00:00:00 mail newsyslog[15580]: logfile turned over
> Feb 18 00:00:00 mail newsyslog[50653]: logfile turned over
>
> Since this occurred i did updated OpenSSH to 5.2p1 (since I thought it was 
> the problem until I looked at the logs more closely) to the latest in the BSD 
> ports and also OpenSSL to 1.0.0_2
>
> But the error still occurs if I uncomment the line in /etc/hosts.allow
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>

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