debugging help from -v

From: Harry Putnam (reader@newsguy.com)
Date: 02/27/02 

From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 10:16:50 -0800

I had a recent rash of troubles with my ssh connections on a specific
lan machine. I hoped to debug it by using the -v (one or more) times
in my command, but all I got that way was a hung session at a certain
point in the chain of events. (early). Can't reproduce it now since
it has been corrected, but there wasn't any clear indication what was
holding it up.

Later I finally found the problem was that the host I was attempting
to connect to had changed its ip number. I found this out from an
nslookup check.

My /etc/hosts still had the old number but the right alpabetic name.

Even with `ssh -v -v -v', there was no obvious indication of this.

Shouldn't I have been able to spot this condition from ssh's verbose
output?

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