Richard E. Silverman wrote:
> Did you try sshd -u0 ?

Yes. No better.

The only thing which worked was to define a local domain in named. I
didn't explore expansion of /etc/hosts as I felt a local caching name
server was something other machines on our inside network would benefit.

In years past simply listing clients one wishes to connect from in
/etc/hosts was enough to pacify sshd on FreeBSD. As I said above, didn't
try that this time.