ssh / bind help?

[Ed Greshko]

William Murray wrote:
>  >William John Murray wrote:
> 
>>> >>> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>> >>>
>>>    
>>>> >>>> The value on an IP reverse lookup is unknown to me, there may be
>>>>       
>>> >>> none.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> *That* was the question.
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>>     
>> >> Well, the question was really how to get ssh working again.
>> >> I now know that if I ssh to an internal or external ip from
>> >> my home network I get this hang. >>   debug1: Next authentication 
>> method: gssapi-with-mic
>> >>   debug3: Trying to reverse map address 168.254.0.251.
>>  
>> You said 168.254.0.251 works and 168.254.0.251. doesn't.
>>
>> I mean, can you "ssh 168.254.0.251"?
>>
>> Can you cut/paste "everything" that you're doing so as to remove all 
>> guess work for the people trying to help?
>>
>  Thanks, sorry for not being clear.
> 
> 
> billmurray> ssh -Y 168.254.0.1.    ssh: Could not resolve hostname 
> 168.254.0.1.: Name or service not known
> 
> billmurray> ssh -Y -vvv 168.254.0.1  ....
> debug1: Next authentication method: gssapi-with-mic
> debug3: Trying to reverse map address 168.254.0.1.

As mentioned by someone else the . at the end of the debug3 statement is 
actually a "period" as in "end of sentence".

Nothing is wrong....

But the other question is valid....why are you using someones assigned IP 
addresses?

> ^C
> 
> billmurray> ssh -Y -vvv base.ashenden  ....
> debug1: Next authentication method: gssapi-with-mic
> debug3: Trying to reverse map address 168.254.0.1.
> ^C
> 
> But...I found a work-around: Removing     GSSAPIAuthentication yes
> from /etc/ssh/ssh_config
> has made GSSAPI go away,  and hence the problem goes away too..
>          Bill
> 
> 
> 
> "I have just one word for you, my boy...plastics." - from "The Graduate"
> 


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