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Date:      Thu, 2 Nov 2000 14:55:50 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Ruppert Brian S <ruppert.bria@students.uwlax.edu>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Authentication hanging with OpenSSH on 4.1.1-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <20001102145550.B20567@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <A743B7E36C43D311850200508B10DCDA0130E6A4@sleepy.intra.uwlax.edu>; from ruppert.bria@students.uwlax.edu on Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 04:13:17PM -0600
References:  <A743B7E36C43D311850200508B10DCDA0130E6A4@sleepy.intra.uwlax.edu>

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* Ruppert Brian S <ruppert.bria@students.uwlax.edu> [001102 14:15] wrote:
> 
>   This is only my second week wtih FreeBSD, so please bear with me.  My
> Linux experience was not able to help me with this problem, and I tried
> searching around mailing list archives but am thinking this problem is
> something really simple that I am overlooking.
> 
>   I have a very simple configuration.  I have a Windows 2000 system and a
> FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE system.  They only have local IP addresses
> (192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0) and (192.168.0.2/255.255.255.0).  
> 
>   I can connect through telnet/ftp/www to the FreeBSD machine and ping it
> without any problems at all.  However, when I use either PuTTY or SecureSSH
> to connect through SSH, it asks for my name and password, then sits there
> forever and doesn't authenticate me.  I even turned on debugging and ran the
> sshd manually.  It gets to the line "debug: attempting authentication for
> brianr" and hangs there until I give up and kill sshd.
> 
>   Can someone provide any ideas on how to fix this?  SSH isn't critical for
> what I'm doing since I'm on a private local network, but I do intend to move
> this system onto a dedicated Internet connection soon and would like to
> already have SSH working and in place.

Looks like a dns problem, get DNS working on your freebsd box so that
It can lookup the address of the machine connecting to it.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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