From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 26 12:55:03 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2627916A41F for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:55:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeremy@stormy.smart-serv.net) Received: from smart-serv.net (smart-serv.net [64.251.71.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 862EC43D45 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:55:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeremy@stormy.smart-serv.net) Received: (qmail 59252 invoked by uid 0); 26 Aug 2005 12:55:02 -0000 Received: from 24.66.142.20 by smart-serv.net (envelope-from , uid 0) with qmail-scanner-1.25 (clamdscan: 0.83/839. spamassassin: 3.0.2. Clear:RC:0(24.66.142.20):SA:0(0.0/4.0):. Processed in 3.555148 secs); 26 Aug 2005 12:55:02 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=4.0 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: jeremy@stormy.smart-serv.net via smart-serv.net X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.25 (Clear:RC:0(24.66.142.20):SA:0(0.0/4.0):. Processed in 3.555148 secs) Received: from s0106002078103a54.ek.shawcable.net (HELO ?192.168.1.248?) (jeremy@cvs.smart-serv.net@24.66.142.20) by smtp2.smart-serv.net with SMTP; 26 Aug 2005 12:54:58 -0000 Message-ID: <430F10F6.5040905@stormy.smart-serv.net> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 05:54:14 -0700 From: "J. Johnston" Organization: SmartServ Hosting User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050731) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Simon Morgan References: <430DC324.6030708@thegeekzone.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD mailinglist Subject: Re: cannot ssh to machine on lan when it has no internet connection X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jeremy@stormy.smart-serv.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:55:03 -0000 Simon Morgan wrote: >On 8/25/05, Ben Pratt wrote: > > >>I'm not sure if this will work or not but try setting up /etc/hosts to >>reflect your LAN. I had a friend who had issues when, even though he was >>connected to the Internet, he had DNS messed up on his FreeBSD system. >>I'm thinking the SSH server is trying to do some DNS lookups and if you >>set your hosts file to have the information about the client machine >>that may be resolved. >> >> > >Just to let you know I tried your suggestion and unfortunately it didn't work. >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > You could set the UseDNS option in /etc/ssh/sshd_config to no. I found this helps when there is no available DNS servers. -- Jeremy Johnston (President / Developer) SmartServ Hosting Email: jeremy@smart-serv.net Phone: 1-250-402-6634 Ext. 201 Cell: 1-250-402-9583 | 2504029583@msg.telus.com (150 Characters max) Fax: 1-250-402-6634 Toll Free: 1-866-702-2904