Re: openssh-3.7.1p2 "Nasty PTR record"

From: Graham Vincent (graham_at_spambounce.co.nz)
Date: 09/27/03 

Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 14:57:57 +1200

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 07:29:09 +0000, Darren Tucker wrote:

> In article <pan.2003.09.26.04.22.33.327502@gpv.co.nz>,
> Graham Vincent <graham@gpv.co.nz> wrote:
>>> It looks like the getaddrinfo() function on your platform (you don't say
>>> what that is) does not behave as the OpenSSH authors expect, and as is
>>> documented on other platforms.
>
> If that's the case you can add "#define BROKEN_GETADDRINFO 1" to
> config.h and recompile. That will force the use of OpenSSH's
> getaddrinfo/getnameinfo replacement functions.

Thanks Richard & Darren - that's stopped the Nasty PTR message :-)

I think that will have to be the last time I post to a newsgroup with a
genuine email address in the header - I've received 117 copies of W32/Swen
since I sent the first query out yesterday :-( 

-- 
Graham Vincent (graham at gpv dot co dot nz)