Re: Could not reverse map

From: Ramin Dousti (ramin_at_cannon.eng.us.uu.net)
Date: 05/14/03

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    Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 13:35:52 -0400
To: moseley@hank.org

    On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 09:40:34AM -0700, moseley@hank.org wrote:

    > SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.4p1 Debian 1:3.4p1-1
    >
    > I'm seeing this error:
    >
    > moseley@mardy:~$ fgrep 'reverse' /var/log/auth.log | head -1
    > May 11 16:53:42 mardy sshd[4870]: Could not reverse map address 192.168.1.2.
    >
    > I'm using "views" in Bind9 so that my internal (NAT'ed) LAN can lookup
    > internal machines:
    >
    > moseley@mardy:~$ dig -x 192.168.1.2 @localhost | grep bumby

    You're explicitely asking dig to ask 127.0.0.1 to resolve.
    sshd uses resolve.conf. What are the entries there?

    Ramin

    > 2.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. 604800 IN PTR bumby.
    >
    > Why is sshd unable to lookup the reverse.
    >
    >
    > --
    > Bill Moseley
    > moseley@hank.org

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