From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 5 7:32:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from out0.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (out0.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net [169.207.1.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1C9537B41B for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 07:32:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell.core.com (IDENT:2525@shell.voyager.net [169.207.1.89]) by out0.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (8.11.4/8.11.4/1.7) with ESMTP id fB5FWWb11266; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 09:32:32 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (jslivko@localhost) by shell.core.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/1.3) with ESMTP id fB5FVaP23948; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 09:32:11 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: shell.core.com: jslivko owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 09:31:31 -0600 (CST) From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" To: krzysztof Cc: Subject: Re: SSH hanging/DNS problem?? In-Reply-To: <20011205152643.45808.qmail@web14807.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, krzysztof wrote: > Dec 5 09:11:29 agador sshd[1239]: Could not reverse > map address 198.198.198.198 What it looks like to me is that your machine could not find a reverse DNS entry in it's records for the above IP address and therefore it has to go on the Internet and search for a hostname to assign to it before it gives up and just lets the user connect as an IP address. SSH has a preference for hostname over IP, it would appear. If you add the machines IP and host to /etc/hosts, it should look there for the DNS information and should find the entry you created, thus it would assign that hostname to the connecting user, thus making the connection much faster. Or, if you have the access and the inclination, you can go into your DNS server and add a PTR line for that server (your NS has to be authorative for that IP though), and then you can try and connect. Having the machine see the reverse DNS would speed things up by alot. - -- Jonathan ___________________________________________________________ Jonathan M. Slivko jslivko@core.com Owner, Voyager Internet Services www.voyageri.net IRC Server Co-Administrator, AsylumNet IRC Networks - ----------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! (http://www.freebsd.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (SunOS) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iD8DBQE8Dj3Y0r0T9plv2LkRAggMAJ9DIWU9wc/cB7N9/oiDb0X5II4fwwCgqUYz vfhf9OmDQbJgV6eXl8AD4P4= =p0C5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message