Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:04:51 +0200 From: Lothar Braun <mail@lobraun.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems ssh'ing debug1: An invalid name was supplied (OSX client) Message-ID: <200610101704.52830.mail@lobraun.de> In-Reply-To: <226ae0c60610100729s540ad6a4qa8a259416dcd3452@mail.gmail.com> References: <226ae0c60610100729s540ad6a4qa8a259416dcd3452@mail.gmail.com>
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--nextPart1301780.47Xu71Z1dg Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 10 October 2006 16:29, David Robillard wrote: > >> any clues why ssh is hanging before a prompt is provided from the > >> server side. this prompt stalling behavior is only happening when I > >> am coming from my OSX ssh client. Any clues on this? I have never see > >> this betwe. > > I had this problem when DNS was broken for the FreeBSD server and the > MacOS X client. Make sure the DNS you're using can resolve both > forward and reverse for the client and the server. Then your ssh > session will be fast and free of this error. If you're not able (or don't want to =3D)) fix the DNS, you can reconfigure= the=20 sshd on the server. Add UseDNS no to it's /etc/ssh/sshd_config and restart the ssh daemon (this will make ssh= d=20 stop to look up the hostnames of the connecting clients) Best regards, Lothar --nextPart1301780.47Xu71Z1dg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFK7aUCllgm08lUqkRAiImAJ9+/ZGDJrQuCVVOp+tGvXExH6b5VACfYpK3 ngaybtXH9Q1Xm/NdQ00xMPA= =axUY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1301780.47Xu71Z1dg--
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