[gentoo-user] plenty of strange sshd-logs... what does it mean?

[Jarry]

Hi,

I just noticed my /var/log/sshd.log is suddenly somehow big.
After checking it out I have found a lot of messages like this:

> 2011-02-21T03:49:21+00:00 obelix sshd[19767]: SSH: Server;Ltype: Version;Remote: my.ip.add.ress-56254;Protocol: 2.0;Client: OpenSSH_5.8p1-hpn13v10

This message was recorded on 2011-02-14T17:45:24+00:00 for
the first time, and since then exactly every 2 minutes.
I think it was the day when I updated to openssh-5.6-p1-r2.

So first of all, what does the message mean? And next,
how can I turn it off, or at least reduce its frequency?

Jarry

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