[K12OSN] ssh and a wierd problem. . .
Doug Simpson
simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
Tue Jul 27 17:39:12 UTC 2004
This has always not been a problem until these last two servers, though.
It has always just worked. . .
Thanks. . .
Doug Simpson
Technology Specialist
DeQueen Public Schools
DeQueen, AR 71832
simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
Tux for President!
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 11:07, Doug Simpson wrote:
> > Fedora Core 1 (several boxen are doing this, all installed from the same
> > cd set. . .)
> >
> > If you ssh into the server from the LAN, it goes right in and all is well.
> >
> > If you ssh in from outside (like from home) it gives you the last logged
> > in information like it is supposed to and then sits there for the rest of
> > your life, unless you CTRL-C at which time it drops you to the
> > naked bash propmt (looks like the one you get when you boot the server to
> > single-user).
> >
> > Any ideas how to fix this?
>
> Among other things that happen when you log in, the system tries to
> do an IDENT query back to the source of the connection and a DNS
> lookup for the connecting IP address. These should time out eventually
> but could take a few minutes if a firewall drops the query or
> response. It might also look up the DNS name for the interface
> you connect on.
>
> ---
> Les Mikesell
> les at futuresource.com
>
>
>
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