sshd DNS

[David Malone]

On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 07:06:00PM +0100, Kov?cs P?ter wrote:
> For what sshd needs DNS? If the DNS is unavailable I can't
> log into my computer. How can I resolve this problem, so I
> can still login if the DNS is not available?

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.

	David.