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 <mak_at_ll.mit.edu> 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_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" > -- James Tanis jtanis_at_pycoder.org http://pycoder.orgReceived on Fri Dec 23 2005 - 16:46:00 UTC
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