SSH login takes very long time...sometimes

[Eric Anderson]

Michael A. Koerber wrote:

>All,
>
>  I have three machines that have had 5.4 and 6.0 installed.  Two of the three machines have very
>well behaved "ssh".  However, the machine (laptop) named OBOE does not.
>
>  Specifically "ssh oboe" will (most of the time) hang for around one minute before asking for a
>prompt.  However, if I'm logged into OBOE and "ssh BSD" (one of the other machines) a password is
>requested within a couple seconds.  (I said most of the time, since on occasion I can reboot OBOE
>and ssh will work just fine...hmmm.)
>
>  I have looked through the /var/log files for clues and skimmed "man ssh" for time out related
>stuff, but no luck.
>
>  Where should I start looking for clues?
>
>  All machines have had clean installs from "newfs'd" drive under both 5.4 and 6.0 so I'm sure no
>left over configs are getting propagated.
>  
>

Check your DNS (or reverse DNS really) on the laptop (OBOE).

Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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