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Hi, I've come across some messages from sshd (OpenSSH 6.7) in my auth.log that I hadn't noticed before: sshd[32008]: error: Received disconnect from x.x.x.x: 3: \ com.jcraft.jsch.JSchException: Auth fail [preauth] I was kinda puzzled why sshd would emit some JCraft[0] messages and the best explanation I found was this Serverfault[1] answer, quoting a snippet from packet.c:1965 and adding: > It looks like openssh server passes through the last message from the > client in its...

This morning's log review revealed this sshd log entry on one of our web services hosts: Received disconnect: 11: disconnected by user : 2 Time(s) 3: com.jcraft.jsch.JSchException: reject HostKey: 216.185.71.170 : 1 Time(s) The IP address used is that of a public facing database query page for our freight transit information. It is itself a virtual IP address hosted on the system reporting the error. In other words, if this were a legitimate connection then the situation...

...ure -- Eero 2015-09-21 11:29 GMT+03:00 James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca>: > This morning's log review revealed this sshd log entry on one of our > web services hosts: > > Received disconnect: > 11: disconnected by user : 2 Time(s) > 3: com.jcraft.jsch.JSchException: reject HostKey: 216.185.71.170 : > 1 Time(s) > > > The IP address used is that of a public facing database query page for > our freight transit information. It is itself a virtual IP address > hosted on the system reporting the error. In other words, if this > were a legitima...