Host verification problem

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Mon May 16 13:32:18 EST 2005


Hadmut Danisch wrote:

>>See: http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=910
> 
> 
> I had a glance on this and also on bug 393. 
> It's an awful and silly discussion. 

[blah blah blah]

If you care enough to write rants at the developers, then you should
care enough to test the patch attached to the bug.

> And by the way: A reverse lookup (unknown IP but host key found in the 
> list) wouldn't be that bad for dynamically assigned IP addresses (e.g.
> ppp, dhcp). 

reverse dns can lie.

-d




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