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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


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