Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:34:07 +0100 From: Michael Ross <michael.ross@gmx.net> To: "roberto giovoni" <r.giovoni@teledata-i.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problem about ssh client connection Message-ID: <20080317153407.6670efa9.michael.ross@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <000001c8882c$7a27b3e0$d16464c1@PCROBO1> References: <000001c8882c$7a27b3e0$d16464c1@PCROBO1>
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Am Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:43:17 +0100 schrieb "roberto giovoni" <r.giovoni@teledata-i.com>: > I have an ssh process running on unix_bsd based server. > Normally to connect remotly to this server I use a putty > terminal (running on windows XP client). > > Now I have the following problem: > > when I open a client terminal connection (with a putty terminal) > the message "login as: " is normally displaied. > > After I insert my login usermane followed from return key press. > I wait for "password:" message request but it isn't displayed. > Moreover after about 1 minute the putty terminal session is > automatically closed. > > On server site the following message is displaied: > > "fatal: Timeout before authentication for xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" > where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is client IP address. > > Can someone help me to understand what' s happen? Could be a hostname lookup failure. I had a similiar problem long time back. If I remember correctly, adding the WinXP client's hostname to /etc/hosts on the BSD machine fixed it. Michael
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