"Jonathan Horne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i have a brand new server i just configured, and most of the time the > inbound connection to sshd times out. (connection refused). a few times > tho, it works fine, but after a short while, it will kick me back off. > > system is based on nvidia chipsets, with the nve0 nic driver. we switched > in a re0 to see if that helped, but its getting the same behavior. > > server is connected to a small linksys 8 port switch that is fairly new. > > i would uname, but at this moment im unable to get into it, it keeps > refusing me. other things seem to work fine, but smtp seems to be > affected by this same problem as well. > > hmm, dns is on an active directory DNS server, could this be the crappy > version of the AAA records? im pretty much otherwise at a loss why this > system isnt behaving nicely.
The symptoms sound a lot like DNS issues. Try using the host command to do a few forward and reverse lookups on machines that you're trying to connect from. If they take a long time, that's likely the problem. -Bill _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
