Thanks Tim, but this is not the one I want.
Setting this option to "yes" will let me connect even though the server
cannot resolve my ip adress.
...but the server wil still try to do the ReverseMapping. :-(
Regards
Jan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jan Egeriis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 2:19 AM
Subject: Re: Possible to avoid Reverse mapping in SSH Secure Shell sshd2
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 07:25:27PM +0100, Jan Egeriis wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there is an option, that will make ssh2d stop trying to reversemap
> > incoming connections?
>
> [snip]
>
> From the SSHD2 man page:
>
> = RequireReverseMapping
> = This is used to check whether hostname DNS lookup must
succeed when checking whether
> = connections from host are allowed using AllowHosts and
DenyHosts. If this is set to
> = yes, then if name lookup fails, the connection is denied.
If set to no, if name
> = lookup fails, the remote host's IP address is used to
check whether it is allowed to
> = connect. This is probably not what you want if you have
specified only host names
> = (not IP addresses) with {Allow,Deny}Hosts. The default is
"no". The argument must be
> = "yes" or "no".
>
