Am 06.03.2013 19:20, schrieb Gordon Messmer: > On 03/06/2013 09:45 AM, Tilman Schmidt wrote: >> Any ideas how to remedy that situation? > > As long as you get the IP address for failed logins, ignore reverse > mapping failures. Trouble is, I don't: Feb 8 00:03:09 dns01 sshd[6119]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for mbl-99-61-82.dsl.net.pk failed - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT! Feb 8 00:03:10 dns01 sshd[6120]: Disconnecting: Too many authentication failures for root Feb 8 00:03:19 dns01 sshd[6121]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for mbl-99-61-82.dsl.net.pk failed - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT! Feb 8 00:03:20 dns01 sshd[6122]: Disconnecting: Too many authentication failures for root Feb 8 00:03:22 dns01 sshd[6123]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for mbl-99-61-82.dsl.net.pk failed - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT! Feb 8 00:03:23 dns01 sshd[6124]: Disconnecting: Too many authentication failures for root [...] And at the end of the day, logwatch tells me: --------------------- SSHD Begin ------------------------ Disconnecting after too many authentication failures for user: root : 149 Time(s) Not good. -- Tilman Schmidt Phoenix Software GmbH Bonn, Germany -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 261 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20130307/1f851467/attachment-0005.sig>