Allen Kistler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > sshd attempts to reverse lookup the client IP address when the client > attempts to connect. Altering the name of the server on the client's > command line isn't going to do anything for you. > > sshd does not use /etc/hosts for reverse resolution, independent of > "files" before "dns" in nsswitch.conf. It relies on DNS exclusively. > > I dislike this behavior as well. So far I haven't disliked it enough > to hack up the source. I'll probably install a local DNS server first.
Are you sure? Is there a reason for this behaviour? One reason why I don't buy it immediately is that I don't see the effect when trying to connect from RH7.2 to RH7.3, only from 7.3 to 7.2. On the other hand, I do the latter *much* more often, and I don't have any statistics worth the name anyway. Thanks, -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
