On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 11:59:38AM -0700, James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > Neil Schneider wrote: > >Lan Barnes wrote: > > > >>You're correct. It's all inside. Here are my ssh paths: > >> > >> router <-only-> linus ---- hendriena ---- gypsy > >> > >>Now from the outside I can ssh into linus, and from linus I can > >>ping/ssh hendriena, but from linus I can only ping gypsy. So I go home > >>and go to a workstation (hendriena); and I can ping/ssh linus, but > >>I can only ping gypsy. > >> > >>So the problem is there within, but I saw it first from without. > > > >How do you reference linus, hendriena and gypsy, by hostname IP or > >otherwise? SSH depends upon dns for some of it's identification > >information. When DNS doesn't work right, hostnames don't resolve and > >ssh slows or doesn't function. Are these machines getting IP addresses > >by dhcp or fixed? > > > > Good points -- you might also want to check for erroneous entries in > (various machines') /etc/hosts file(s). That might confuse ssh or sshd > trying to do dns or reverse dns lookups respectively. >
Again, no DNS. Both ping and ssh are going to /etc/hosts; one works, one doesn't work but only to one machine from all the others. >From me you can take this as truth. -- Lan Barnes Linux Guy, SCM Specialist Tcl/Tk Enthusiast You say you are a Calvinist. I am not. I am of a sect by myself, as far as I know. - Thomas Jefferson, letter to Ezra Stiles Ely, June 25, 1819 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
