Mike Brudenell writes:
: 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.
Did you actually install the beta, and did not just run the executable
from the distribution directory? I remember fixing one race-condition
in ssh-signer2, which incurred in Solaris.
: 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.
I'll try to help you with this.
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