Re: Woody SSH and spurious DNS calls

[Wayne Topa <wtopa@dmcom.net>]

	Subject: Woody SSH and spurious DNS calls
	Date: Fri, May 25, 2001 at 01:14:20AM +0200

In reply to:Carel Fellinger

Quoting Carel Fellinger(cfelling@iae.nl):
> Recently I upgraded a box to woody and ever since it takes a lot of time
> to start ssh from that box.  Only starting from that box, connecting to
> it is normal, and (quit telling) only when my internet connection is down.
> 
> With tcpdump it's clear that the only thing going on over the net is a
> DNS query.  I've the local machine and the machine connecting too both
> in /etc/hosts, yet there is this DNS query.
> 
> I tried sniffit to look into the DNS query, but I don't understand how
> that should be done; would be interesting to see just what addres is
> looked-up.
> 
> I tried strace ..., but can't make sense out of its output, yet.
> 
> So any pointer in howto get to the bits is appreciated, any pointer
> of how to prevent such spurious DNS queries is also appreciated.

FWIW I have the same problem with a recent ssh upgrade on potato.
Using the address get connect but using the fqdn doesn't connect
unless the internet nameservers are up.

/etc/nsswitch.conf and /etc/hosts.conf are OK and it worked before the
upgrade.  go figure

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