Bug 54

Summary:	ssh does not respect /etc/host.conf
Product:	Portable OpenSSH	Reporter:	Simon Law <sfllaw>
Component:	ssh	Assignee:	OpenSSH Bugzilla mailing list <openssh-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P2
Version:	-current
Hardware:	ix86
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=123373&repeatmerged=yes

Description Simon Law 2001-12-19 11:20:33 AEDT

It looks like ssh is looking at /etc/host.conf AFTER reading /etc/resolv.conf
and trying to do a DNS lookup.  This is not good, because then it doesn't
respect the host.conf ordering on name resolution.

A Debian ticket has been opened, and is listed in the URL.  You will find an
strace of the problem there.

(I'm not sure if sshd has this problem, when it comes to reverse DNS checking. 
Can we confirm this as well?)

Comment 1 Markus Friedl 2001-12-20 04:21:59 AEDT

what's host.conf?

ssh does not even look at resolv.conf

Comment 2 Simon Law 2001-12-20 05:40:55 AEDT

Further investigation reveals that this is not an SSH bug.

Comment 3 Damien Miller 2004-04-14 12:24:17 AEST

Mass change of RESOLVED bugs to CLOSED