Re: issue with name resolution

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_comcast.net)
Date: 11/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 08:30:36 -0500

"Giorgio Corani" <gcoraniREMOVETHIS@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:43897da1$0$16204$4fafbaef@reader3.news.tin.it...
> dear all,
>
> I have a slackware 10.2 box, and a remote linux box I want login to.
>
> Here my problems:
>
> traceroute [remote-hostname] -> no problems
> ssh [remote-ip-address] -> works without problems
>
> ssh [remote-hostname] -> connection fails, with a time out error
> message.
> By logging the ssh messages, I found out that it tries to connect to host
> [1.0.0.0], i.e. it wrongly resolvs the host.
>
> However, if I do
>
> host [remote-hostname] -> ok
>
> and then
>
> ssh [remote-hostname] -> ok
>
> ssh works; it seems that it uses same cache of host resolution.
>
> Can you explain me how to fix the hostname resolution?
>
> best regards

Is the reverse DNS for your host correct? And it's unclear to me whether you
are checking the logs on your client, or on the SSH serving host, and what
you are actually seeing. Can you post the logs?

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