On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Valerie Bubb Fenwick <Valerie.Fenwick at sun.com> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Peter Tribble wrote: > >> I've just installed a bunch of T5240s with S10U8. I can ssh between some >> of >> the systems just fine, but ssh between some systems takes *ages* to >> connect, >> and one of them is reporting: >> >> sshd[766]: [ID 800047 auth.crit] fatal: Monitor not responding >> >> any hints where to look? >> >> (All systems identically built with jumpstart; I've done similar >> deployments >> in other datacenters without encountering this issue elsewhere.) > > Hi Peter - > > Are there any other errors? Sounds like all of the hardware is the > same, so that shouldn't be a difference (like if some had hardware > crypto acceleration and others ?didn't) > > I saw a similar bug filed internally and the problem seems to be > aggravated by problems with nameservices (if it's the same thing, > unfortunately, it looks like a few things can trip this message)
Thanks. It's not the most helpful message, but I think that it was a nameservice (DNS) issue. At least, I made it go away by adding entries to /etc/inet/hosts. It is somewhat of a concern, though, that sshd fails if DNS gets flaky. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
