Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:59:47 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> To: "Jonathan Horne" <freebsd@dfwlp.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: brand new server timing out for sshd connections Message-ID: <20070127185947.5f94eb2f.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <1488.192.168.125.138.1169936019.squirrel@webmail.dfwlp.org> References: <1488.192.168.125.138.1169936019.squirrel@webmail.dfwlp.org>
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"Jonathan Horne" <freebsd@dfwlp.com> wrote: > > i have a brand new server i just configured, and most of the time the > inbound connection to sshd times out. (connection refused). a few times > tho, it works fine, but after a short while, it will kick me back off. > > system is based on nvidia chipsets, with the nve0 nic driver. we switched > in a re0 to see if that helped, but its getting the same behavior. > > server is connected to a small linksys 8 port switch that is fairly new. > > i would uname, but at this moment im unable to get into it, it keeps > refusing me. other things seem to work fine, but smtp seems to be > affected by this same problem as well. > > hmm, dns is on an active directory DNS server, could this be the crappy > version of the AAA records? im pretty much otherwise at a loss why this > system isnt behaving nicely. The symptoms sound a lot like DNS issues. Try using the host command to do a few forward and reverse lookups on machines that you're trying to connect from. If they take a long time, that's likely the problem. -Bill
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