On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:31:24 +1300, Nigel Wohlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What is the value of "LoginGraceTime"?
> 
> SSH will try to do a reverse lookup on the IP connecting to it and if
> that times out before "LoginGraceTime" then your client (putty) will get
> booted and SSH will report the failure to syslog.
> 
> 
> Fabian Anklam wrote:
> >>Reverse DNS lookup timeout?
> >>
> >>N
> >>
> >
> >
> > Authentication seems to be the problem, not connection, care to elaborate?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Fabian
> 

LoginGraceTime was left at default value (2 minutes iirc). Adding the
Windows box to /etc/hosts doesn't resolve the problem.

sshd writes

sshd[procid]: fatal: Timeout before authentication for windows.box.ip

to /var/log/messages

Fabian
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