Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 17:58:03 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Ralph Dratman <ralph@maxsoft.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SSHD suddenly takes SIX MINUTES to authenticate Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20030131175641.0290b720@localhost> In-Reply-To: <v04210102ba60a5a98b9c@[192.168.1.27]>
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At 04:09 PM 1/31/2003, Ralph Dratman wrote: >Suddenly I cannot SSH to one of my FreeBSD servers. This is true from >every SSH client on every computer I've tried. My sshd setup had worked >fine for several years until just yesterday. I am now getting "Timeout >before authentication" errors in the system log. I can SSH normally to >other hosts. Sounds like a DNS problem. Sendmail also starts up slowly or hangs when there's no DNS. Relying on DNS to work is a bug, since it can compound problems during network outages. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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