Re: what does this message means

2006-03-27 Thread Bill Moran
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:28:33 +0500 (PKT) Imran Imtiaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got the following in my daily security check logs. what does it mean? Mar 26 14:27:17 darkstar sshd[90821]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for genesis-27-156-16-del.genesipr.com failed - POSSIBLE BREAKIN

RE: what does this message means

2006-03-27 Thread fbsd_user
It means a attacker who has camouflaged his real identity found your ssh port open and was trying to gain access, but ssh's security did its job and denied access just like it's designed to do. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Imran Imtiaz