Re: strange SSH behavior

["Ram" <fblarbastanix@yahoo.com>]

Try a DNS test. Log into the machine which is slow to respond when you
connect to it (ftp server, SSH server). From that machine do both a
forward and reverse hostname [DNS] lookup. I bet 90%+ of the time this
type of question comes up it is because the serving host insists on
trying to figure out who's connecting and waits for a timeout.

Perhaps your host file or DNS zone info changed? Perhaps there is no
working resolver on the serving host? 

l8s
ram


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-misc@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-misc@openbsd.org] On Behalf
Of Ricardo Londono
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 19:22
To: misc@openbsd.org
Subject: strange SSH behavior

I have been running an OBSD 3.0 server for 3+ months now.  I love it!
But
lately for some strange reason when I use Putty to connect to the server
via
SSH it takes a good long 2 minutes or so to authenticate me.  I also
believe
it's affecting FTP?  This problem started about 1 week ago and I have
not done
anything.  It authenticates eventually and works fine but takes a long
time.
Before I would type password in and connect instantly.

any ideas?

thx

Ricardo