From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 2 14:55:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1BF537B4C5 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 14:55:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id eA2Mtod18093; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 14:55:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 14:55:50 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Ruppert Brian S Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Authentication hanging with OpenSSH on 4.1.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <20001102145550.B20567@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from ruppert.bria@students.uwlax.edu on Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 04:13:17PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Ruppert Brian S [001102 14:15] wrote: > > This is only my second week wtih FreeBSD, so please bear with me. My > Linux experience was not able to help me with this problem, and I tried > searching around mailing list archives but am thinking this problem is > something really simple that I am overlooking. > > I have a very simple configuration. I have a Windows 2000 system and a > FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE system. They only have local IP addresses > (192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0) and (192.168.0.2/255.255.255.0). > > I can connect through telnet/ftp/www to the FreeBSD machine and ping it > without any problems at all. However, when I use either PuTTY or SecureSSH > to connect through SSH, it asks for my name and password, then sits there > forever and doesn't authenticate me. I even turned on debugging and ran the > sshd manually. It gets to the line "debug: attempting authentication for > brianr" and hangs there until I give up and kill sshd. > > Can someone provide any ideas on how to fix this? SSH isn't critical for > what I'm doing since I'm on a private local network, but I do intend to move > this system onto a dedicated Internet connection soon and would like to > already have SSH working and in place. Looks like a dns problem, get DNS working on your freebsd box so that It can lookup the address of the machine connecting to it. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message