David Blakeburn writes:
: I am running ssh on Solaris 7 inconjuction with tcp wrappers. We cannot use
: ssh to login to a server running sshd2 unless the host connecting to the
: server is either a resolvable through DNS or there is an entry in the
: /etc/hosts file, regardless of the fact the hosts are specifically mentioned
: in the hosts.allow file. Is this a security feature that can be turned off?
: We do not want ssh to attempt DNS resolutions.
:
: Any help would be appreciated.
You can (as Stefan already pointed out) set "RequireReverseMapping" to
"no". Or, if you wish to retain that, you should add that hosts ip to
ssh's /etc/ssh2/sshd2_config to AllowHosts . This way sshd2 will know
to allow the host, even though it's name can't be reverse mapped.
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