[nycbug-talk] issues with ssh local osx -> remote freedbsd

[Charles Sprickman]

On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Jonathan Vanasco wrote:

> there's no packetloss if i ping manhattan from brooklyn, and all
> other services seem fine
>
> can anyone give me a suggestion as where my issue between the mac and
> freebsd boxes are?

Is it only coming from the OS-X box?  Do you have anything else at home to 
ssh from?

My gut feeling is that there's no reverse dns on your home IP and sshd is 
just sitting there waiting on the lookup.  Or there is reverse dns and 
your remote host is failing on the lookup for some reason.

A few things to do to get more information:

-run "ssh -v freebsdbox" and post back with where it's stalling
-ssh to the freebsd box and then do verify that the freebsd box can lookup 
your IP and return a name and then that that name when looked up returns 
the same IP

If there does appear to be a DNS problem you can temporarily fix it by 
telling sshd to not do the dns checks.  Add "UseDNS no" to your 
sshd_config.

Charles

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