[plug] ssh daemon configuration

Tim Bowden bowden at iinet.net.au
Thu Feb 6 11:05:56 WST 2003


On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 09:47, ryan at is.as.geeky.as wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 09:29, Leon Brooks wrote:
> > On Thursday 06 February 2003 09:11 am, Tim Bowden wrote:
> > > Is there anything else I should be looking at?
> > 
> > TCPwrapper.
> > 
> > In particular, /etc/hosts.deny
> > 
> > Cheers; Leon
> 
> Which is often triggered off by unresolvable hosts or DNS problems when you have 
> the default 'ALL: PARANOID' in there.
> 
> <snip>
> # The PARANOID wildcard matches any host whose name does not match its
> # address.
> ALL: PARANOID
> </snip>
> 
> I'd fix that problem rather than changing /etc/hosts.deny, might have incorrect entries in /etc/hosts
> or some deeper dns problem?
> 
> Ryan
> 
> 
Thanks gents,

*smack on head*
fixed hosts.allow for sshd and smtp: solved my sendmail problem too. 
Must remember about that.

Tim Bowden




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