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From: Shawn Wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org,"Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@xunil.at>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ssh hanging ... why?
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:03:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9fd4123a-d872-4fac-8714-7896f1f1d5e7@email.android.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5239E7FB.2060401@xunil.at>

Since the downgrade fixed your issue idk... but, what does your authorized_keys look like? Also, move or chmod 0 your config to make sure nothing funny is happening there. 

"Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@xunil.at> wrote:
>Am 18.09.2013 19:47, schrieb Joe Nyland:
>> 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
>
>Thanks for your feedback.
>
>The server doesn't have mdns in there, just:
>
>hosts:	files dns
>
>(which hasn't been changed in years, I am quite sure).
>
>So you suggest that the contacted server wants to know which FQDN the
>contacting IP points to?
>
>Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-18 18:03 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
2013-09-18 17:50     ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-09-18 18:03       ` Shawn Wilson [this message]
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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