[sslh] ssh protocol and server-starting

MJ Ray mjr at phonecoop.coop
Fri Feb 10 16:24:40 CET 2012


Yves Rutschle <yves at naryves.com>
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 04:35:27PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
> > Anyway, -n seems like a good idea, else people accessing from sites
> > with broken DNS may be slowing things down a lot.  This is similar
> > reasoning to why Apache HTTP Server defaults HostnameLookups Off now.
> > Maybe it should be the default behaviour in sslh too.
> 
> This shouldn't be much of a problem for the fork version (it
> would only slow down connections for that particular
> client), but it would make sense to make it the default for
> the select version indeed.

Yes, I'm using the select version at the moment, although I'm not
sure why.

> No guarantees I'll do it though, I don't like changing
> default behaviours :)

Doesn't bother me either way: I have the option set now.

Thanks for your responses,
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