From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 30 18:27:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gecko.znet.net.au (mx.znet.net.au [203.87.59.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 829B037B406 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 18:27:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from bigone (ppp-ifl-129.comnorth.com.au [203.87.59.129]) by gecko.znet.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA20930 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 12:27:41 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from Robbak@comnorth.com.au) Message-ID: <001501c161b4$9d182f60$813b57cb@bigone> From: "Robert Backhaus" To: Subject: SSH and part-time dial-up access Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 12:34:46 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a bsd machine set up doing dhcp, dns, ppp ,samba & gateway work. (It is a great compliment to freeBSD that it provides *acceptable* service, as it is but a 486). We use private address space (192.168.0.*), and dynamic ip with our ISP. The private network uses a fictional, but sane, Domain name. (Not foo.bar etc) I would like to perminently dump telnet, but SSH only works when the freeBSD box is connected to the internet. Whenever not connected, ssh gives "Authentication timeout" errors. DNS is working within the local network (including reverse). I am assuming that the ssh daemon or clients are requiring an external dns lookup. Do they have to? Can I tell them not to? (I am normally using TerraTerm pro with ssh extensions, although ssh to localhost from the BSD system fails similarly) Thanks Robert Backhaus robert@biz.net.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message