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From: "Mike Jakubik" <mikej@rogers.com>
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David Malone said:

> I think this is a bad interaction between the default sshd timeouts
> and the DNS timeouts. If your reverse DNS is non-responding (as
> opposed to just non-existant) then sshd's login timeout can expire
> before the DNS lookup finishes making logins impossible. One way
> around is to up the login timeout for sshd.

I've been bit by this a few times where a remote box had misconfigured DNS
settings, and i could not log in. I think this should be addressed somehow
in the default install.