On Thursday 03 April 2003 12:32 am, Eric House wrote: > I'm moving myself and a computer running sshd from one household to > another. The computer is unchanged. With it in the first location I > was able to connect to sshd from my ISP. In the second I cannot. > > The first had a Bering 1.0 router attached to an ATT cable modem. > > The second has a Bering uClib 1.1 router attached to a DSL modem > running pppoe. This system basically works, including forwarding port > 8080 to apache running on the same machine as the sshd server. > > The firewall seems to be doing its job carrying out this rule: > > DNAT net loc:192.168.1.2 tcp ssh > > in that the connection attempt is forwarded to the server inside the > firewall. The server, however, rejects the attempt with this entry in > the auth.log: > > [sshd] Could not reverse map address <address of my ISP>. > > I'd suspect a sshd configuration problem if it weren't for the fact > that this machine worked perfectly in the other location and is > unchanged. Instead I wonder if there's something wrong with my dns > setup, or with dns on Bering uClib. > > Does anyone have any suggestions for fixing this? > > BTW, dig -x <address of my ISP> (same address as couldn't be reverse > mapped) works just fine from the commandline on the machine in > question. So basic DNS is working. Just not for sshd.
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