[lug] Connection problems

[Matt Clauson]

On Wednesday 21 November 2001 11:55, Chris Wade hastily scribbled the 
following:
> I get the following:
>
> $ ssh -l chris -v [IP]
> SSH Version 1.2.30 [i686-unknown-linux], protocol version 1.5.
> Standard version.  Does not use RSAREF.
> pyramid: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
> pyramid: ssh_connect: getuid 500 geteuid 0 anon 0
> pyramid: Allocated local port 1023.
> pyramid: Connecting to [IP] port 22.
>
> And then it just sits there...

Have you done DNS sanity checks on the remote machine (ie: it can 
resolve the IP you're connecting from, the DNS servers aren't down, 
etc.) -- otherwise it'll hang until the DNS lookup fails or times out.

--mec