SSHD timeout

Mike Jakubik
Wed, 25 May 2005 03:16:51 -0000

On Tue, May 24, 2005 10:42 pm, Matt Smith said:

> I have a friend that has 5.4 where SSHD keeps timing out before
> authentification.  Box has a hardwired 3com NIC.  We?ve tried everything
> but can't find the cause of the timeouts.  What gives?

Make sure DNS is working properly. You may also try ssh v1 with Keyboard
interactive authentication, i find that this is the quickest method in,
when there are DNS problems. Also, please trim your posts.