Useless log message "POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT"

Alex Bligh alex at alex.org.uk
Fri Dec 27 04:27:49 EST 2013


On 25 Dec 2013, at 08:04, Ben Lindstrom wrote:

>     UseDNS  Specifies whether sshd(8) should look up the remote host name and check that the resolved host name for the remote IP
>             address maps back to the very same IP address.  The default is ``yes''.

I've often wondered why the default for this is 'yes'.

-- 
Alex Bligh






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