Re: strange SSH behavior

["Ricardo Londono" <ricardo@datawan.net>]

thank you so much!  You guys are great!  It was a DNS issue.  I have not
fixed sshd to not do DNS lookups but in my Proftpd conf file I made it to
where it does not do lookups and I'm login right in with not waiting!

I too thought it could not be DNS because I have used the same machine for
months with no problem but I made the change in my ftp conf file and it
fixed things right up.  I don't understand why I have the issue but am happy
to know how to fix it.

thank you

Ricardo

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ralph Forsythe" <rforsythe@centerone.com>
To: "Ricardo Londono" <ricardo@datawan.net>
Cc: <misc@openbsd.org>
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: strange SSH behavior


> Weird!!  I have a 3.0-current (as of a couple weeks ago) system where ssh
> has been doing the same thing for about a week as well.  No changes
> whatsoever, so I'm at a loss.  You may notice this as well, if I
> intentionally enter a wrong password it bounces me right away.  This leads
> me to believe that I am being authenticated immediately, but the shell
> environment is taking a long time to come up.  I am using bash as my
> shell, installed from the packages.
>
> I have tried from both Putty (current version, SSHv2, Blowfish, et al) and
> an OS/X command line which is running OpenSSH 3.02p2.  Same thing both
> cases.  Once I do actually get in, it is the usual quick response.  I'm
> accessing via local LAN, same subnet.
>
> This is not a DNS issue as I have been connecting from the same Putty
> laptop for months with no problems.  The mac is a new addition, however it
> will connect to other systems right away so I'm fairly certain it's ok.  I
> don't know if this affects FTP as my system is a firewall and I have that
> turned off.
>
> Well shoot, now I'm very curious as to what would cause both of our
> systems to exhibit the same problem at roughly the same time.  Something
> date related perhaps?  But then why isn't it common across the board?
> Strange.
>
> - Ralph
>
> On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Ricardo Londono wrote:
>
> > 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