Hi there -- I'm running openssh-9.8p1 on Arch Linux and recently I've been seeing quite a few log messages of this form (identifying information changed to protect the innocent): sshd[1234]: Timeout before authentication for connection from 12.34.56.78 to 87.65.43.21, pid = 123456 The confusing thing is that 12.34.56.78 is the IP address of the machine running sshd, and thus the phrasing of the message suggests that sshd itself is trying to initiate a connection to 87.65.43.21, which is kind of terrifying to me given how the machine is used. I poked around the code and I think the message consed up in child_register (sshd.c:265) has laddr and raddr transposed: xasprintf(&child->id, "connection from %s to %s", laddr, raddr); should be: xasprintf(&child->id, "connection from %s to %s", raddr, laddr); The phrasing "from X to Y" suggests that X is the client and Y is the server; since this is sshd, by definition, the client is remote (raddr) and the server is local (laddr). Note also that the call to xasprintf four lines earlier uses raddr as the "from". pete _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev