Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 05:38:11 +0200 From: Jens Holmqvist <zparta@gmail.com> To: Matt Smith <ratman6@charter.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSHD timeout Message-ID: <3b41db85050524203826b826c1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3b41db85050524202547673b9d@mail.gmail.com> References: <000001c560d3$545e4f80$0401a8c0@laptop> <F3C5BD3B-0AD2-4313-8C45-CB2F2101B8A7@mac.com> <3b41db85050524202547673b9d@mail.gmail.com>
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On 5/25/05, Jens Holmqvist <zparta@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/25/05, Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: > > 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've tried > > > 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 > > broken. > > > > -- > > -Chuck > > > > PS: God kills a kitten every time someone top-posts while quoting an > > entire daily digest of 30+ archived messages. If you don't care > > about saving the kittens, at least consider saving bandwidth... > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.or= g" > > >=20 > if it is because of the reverse dns try to add the ip to /etc/hosts > with a meaningless hostname >=20 might be good to give an example in an internal network with the subnet 192.168.1.0/24 the server you are trying to connect to got the ip 192.168.1.21 then you would do something like this 192.168.1.21 server 192.168.1.49 workstation
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