On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 09:24:03PM +0100, Andreas Voegele wrote: > If I'm trying to connect to another local machine with ssh, my system > goes online since ssh fails to locally resolve the address of the > other machine for some reason. > > Does someone else have this problem?
Yes, me. If isdnctrl dialmode ippp0 manual, it takes quite a while to connect to the other box when I call ssh <name>. ssh <full.qualified.name> works without delay. If dialmode is auto, ssh causes a dialout. I hadn't time to watch closer to this, unfortunaly. > The address of the other machine is in /etc/hosts and it can also be > resolved by the local DNS without problems. /etc/nsswitch.conf > contains the line "hosts: files dns". Reverse DNS lookups do work. > > I can use other services like ping and telnet without the described > problem. Same here. -- Bye, Dietmar
