From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 10 15:05:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4032C16A412 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:05:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail@lobraun.de) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.187]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8078D43D68 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:04:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mail@lobraun.de) Received: from [134.2.165.37] (helo=vpn0287.extern.uni-tuebingen.de) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu2) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKwtQ-1GXJA41kli-0003VL; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:04:52 +0200 From: Lothar Braun To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:04:51 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <226ae0c60610100729s540ad6a4qa8a259416dcd3452@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <226ae0c60610100729s540ad6a4qa8a259416dcd3452@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1301780.47Xu71Z1dg"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200610101704.52830.mail@lobraun.de> X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:104f95452e150713f597d156114ee5ee Cc: Subject: Re: problems ssh'ing debug1: An invalid name was supplied (OSX client) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:05:07 -0000 --nextPart1301780.47Xu71Z1dg Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 10 October 2006 16:29, David Robillard wrote: > >> any clues why ssh is hanging before a prompt is provided from the > >> server side. this prompt stalling behavior is only happening when I > >> am coming from my OSX ssh client. Any clues on this? I have never see > >> this betwe. > > I had this problem when DNS was broken for the FreeBSD server and the > MacOS X client. Make sure the DNS you're using can resolve both > forward and reverse for the client and the server. Then your ssh > session will be fast and free of this error. If you're not able (or don't want to =3D)) fix the DNS, you can reconfigure= the=20 sshd on the server. Add UseDNS no to it's /etc/ssh/sshd_config and restart the ssh daemon (this will make ssh= d=20 stop to look up the hostnames of the connecting clients) Best regards, Lothar --nextPart1301780.47Xu71Z1dg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFK7aUCllgm08lUqkRAiImAJ9+/ZGDJrQuCVVOp+tGvXExH6b5VACfYpK3 ngaybtXH9Q1Xm/NdQ00xMPA= =axUY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1301780.47Xu71Z1dg--