Thomas Goirand wrote:
my next bet will be to try "ReverseMappingCheck no" tomorrow. but it works on any of my other setups without dns, although with a delay of several seconds.This sounds like your /etc/resolv.conf is wrong, so you can't resolve domain names. Remember that ssh will try to do a reverse DNS lookup, to see what domain name you are using, and eventually use a ssh key. If you can't resolve, this can take quite some time. So you might just WAIIIIT for a long time, and it will work (my guess).
also the other symptoms sound strange to me..even if DNS does not work i should be able use a mirror using ip numbers or retrieve a file with wget using an IP address. i tried this on other systems without a dns server and non-valid addresses and i can't seem to reproduce the problem.
Also, now that I see the problem, this sounds like a debian-user question... :)
you might be right on that, but i'm not sure what its is.
Thomas