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From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 23:16:45 -0400
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Subject: Re: SSHD timeout
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On May 24, 2005, at 10:42 PM, Matt Smith wrote:
> I have a friend that has 5.4 where SSHD keeps timing out before
> authentification.  Box has a hardwired 3com NIC.  We=92ve tried =20
> everything
> but can't find the cause of the timeouts.  What gives?

Try "ping _machine_" and see whether that works.
Run "ssh -vvv _machine_" and it will give more information.
If you experience a two-minute delay your reverse DNS is probably =20
broken.

--=20
-Chuck

PS: God kills a kitten every time someone top-posts while quoting an =20
entire daily digest of 30+ archived messages.  If you don't care =20
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