Re: ssh strangeness

[Andrew Dixon <andrew.dixon@seranoa.com>]

Christian Jaeger wrote:
> 
> At 13:57 Uhr -0400 12.7.2001, Andrew Dixon wrote:
> >Could this be a problem with reverse name lookups?  We're using M$ as
> >our DHCP and primary DNS and it works about as well as you'd expect it
> >to work (read: it sucks).
> 
> Yes, it's probably exactly that. We experienced the same problem when
> trying to log into our debian box from a machine which didn't have a
> reverse DNS entry. (There must be a configuration option to sshd - we
> didn't need to solve it so I can't tell.)

Do you mean that straightening out the DNS solved the problem?  

thanks,
Andy