Did your settings for sshd change recently or did you upgrade the ssh-server (or similar) package recently? DenyHosts grabs the data by parsing the secure/messages log file so if those files suddenly contain hosts instead of ip addresses then that would explain it.
Phil On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Daniel Norton wrote: > On Friday I started seeing host names instead of IP addresses added to * > hosts.deny* and they're also in the denyhosts files, presumably from one or > more sync servers. > > This will break denyhosts in several ways, allowing the possibility of > someone bypassing the protection provided by denyhosts (and possibly > preventing access from previously permitted IP addresses). It also breaks > third-party scripts that expect IP addresses. > > Has anyone else seen this? e.g. from my *hosts-restricted* file: > > ns1.gopalmer.co.uk:0:Fri Aug 27 11:07:17 2010 > >> From *hosts.deny*: > # DenyHosts: Fri Aug 27 11:07:17 2010 | ALL: ns1.gopalmer.co.uk > ALL: ns1.gopalmer.co.uk > > -- > Daniel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Denyhosts-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/denyhosts-user
