Greetings -
--On Monday, March 27, 2000 5:50 pm +0200 Sebastian Zimmermann
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It looks as if there is something funny in the area of hostname
>> authentication (at least in how I've got ssh built and configured on our
>> system!).
>
> I agree. I believe the error is in the client. What type of hostname
> does your client use? The shorter nickname or the FQDN? If you are using
> the nickname, try (as root) manually setting it to the FQDN and try
> connecting to the server. If hostbased authentication then works you
> have the same problem I had.
Unfortunately our hosts are set up with FQDNs, so I don't think that's the
problem we're seeing here.
> The problem still exists in the beta version of 2.1.
I agree: I downloaded and built the 2.1beta in vague hope of our hanging
problem having been discovered and fixed ... but it still hangs just the
same.
The thing I find strange is that it very occasionally _does_ work and
establishes a hostname-authenticated connection. However try it again
straight afterwards and it (consistently) hangs. Keep trying, and it keeps
hanging. Come back to it sometime later: it works again (once!).
This is why I keep thinking about some sort of caching or locking problem
that times out after a while.
Sigh.
Cheers,
Mike B-)
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