redhat-list Digest, Vol 39, Issue 21

[Stephen Carville]

Dineshwar Kumar wrote:
>  Hi All,
> 
> 
> i get this entry in my log. do any one have idea what is the reson of it.
> 
> 
> With thanks,
> 
> Dinesh
> 
> 
> 
> May 15 10:08:57 pub01 sshd[14316]: Accepted publickey for abcuser from
> XX.XX.XX.XX port 35375 ssh2
> 
> May 15 10:08:58 pub01 sshd[14316]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo
> for
> host-XX.XX.XX.XX.edu failed - POSSIBLE BREAKIN ATTEMPT!
> 
> May 15 10:10:02 pub01 sshd[14430]: Accepted publickey for abcuser from
> XX.XX.XX.XX. port 35530 ssh2
> 
> May 15 10:10:02 pub01 sshd[14430]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo
> for
> host-XX.XX.XX.XX.edu failed - POSSIBLE BREAKIN ATTEMPT!

This is probably DNS related but if you hide the IP addresses I'm not 
gong to waste my time guessing about it.

-- 
Stephen Carville <stephen at totalflood.com>
Systems Engineer
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