Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 15:15:54 -0500 (EST) From: "Mike Jakubik" <mikej@rogers.com> To: "David Malone" <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sshd DNS Message-ID: <1382.172.16.0.200.1103487354.squirrel@172.16.0.200> In-Reply-To: <20041219183302.GA23577@lanczos.maths.tcd.ie> References: <freemail.20041119190600.63226@fm16.freemail.hu> <20041219183302.GA23577@lanczos.maths.tcd.ie>
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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.
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