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From: Joe Nyland <lists@joenyland.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ssh hanging ... why?
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 18:47:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F839DBD-DBF4-41D2-A187-F47A9855207E@joenyland.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <523978AC.3020302@xunil.at>


On 18 Sep 2013, at 10:55, Stefan G. Weichinger <lists@xunil.at> wrote:

> Am 18.09.2013 11:53, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
> 
>> Rebuilt openssh already.
>> 
>> Maybe I should downgrade for testing ...
>> 
>> The problematic box: net-misc/openssh-6.2_p2-r4
>> The working box: net-misc/openssh-5.9_p1-r4
> 
> Yep. Downgrading works for me.
> 
> 

Not sure why a downgraded openssh would improve things for you if this is the issue, however I faced the same issue as yourself and it was caused by mDNS trying to do a reverse lookup on the host connecting in to the affected server, ultimately causing the SSH connection to hang.

Check that the order of sources on the hosts line of you /etc/nsswitch.conf[1] file on the server that you are having issues _connecting to_, not the desktop that you're connecting from.

Mine is:

	`hosts:          files dns mdns4_minimal mdns4`

Note `dns` is before `mdns4`.

[1] http://linux.die.net/man/5/nsswitch.conf

Joe

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-18 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-18  9:53 [gentoo-user] ssh hanging ... why? Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-09-18  9:55 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-09-18 17:47   ` Joe Nyland [this message]
2013-09-18 17:50     ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-09-18 18:03       ` Shawn Wilson
2013-09-18 18:13         ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-09-18 19:01           ` Shawn Wilson
2013-09-18 20:48             ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-09-19  3:43               ` shawn wilson
2013-09-18 19:35 ` [gentoo-user] re ssh hangs James

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