[K12OSN] ssh and a wierd problem. . .

Doug Simpson simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
Tue Jul 27 20:25:22 UTC 2004


Petre has the same problem and mine are also the K12LTSP cd set.  One of 
them is installed without any of the K12LTSP stuff though (unchecked LTSP 
during install).

I am glad I am not the only one, but we need a solution to this. . .

Thanks again!



Doug Simpson
Technology Specialist
DeQueen Public Schools
DeQueen, AR 71832
simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
Tux for President!

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Petre Scheie wrote:

> I'm seeing something similar: ssh to FC1 (k12ltsp 4.0.1) via LAN is 
> fine, but coming from outside through firewall stalls for...let's 
> see...roughly two minutes and fifteen seconds after I've entered my 
> password.  After that time elapses, I finally get a prompt.  Or if I'm 
> impatient, Ctrl-C will drop me to a bare prompt.  My kludge workaround 
> has been then to run '. .bashrc'.  I just figured it was the firewall 
> blocking something.  But it happens no matter where I connect from, 
> although it doesn't happen on other sites that I connect to.  This 
> problem site has just the one box.  My source address won't resolve to a 
> name though, but that doesn't explain why other sites I connect to don't 
> have the same problem.  My home webserver is also FC1 but not K12ltsp 
> and it does not have this problem.
> 
> Petre
> 
> Doug Simpson wrote:
> 
> >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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