For whatever reason, I have had a similar problem which was solved by entering the machines that you are logging in from into the hosts file. I'm guessing it attempts a reverse lookup and your (as well as my) dns/hostname does not match its reverse lookup entry.
On 12/23/05, Michael A. Koerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > -- > --------------------- > Dr Michael A. Koerber > x3250 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > -- James Tanis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pycoder.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
