Re: issue with name resolution

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker_at_gate.dodgy.net.au)
Date: 11/29/05 

Date: 29 Nov 2005 03:38:06 GMT

On 2005-11-28, gcorani@gmail.com <gcorani@gmail.com> wrote:
> (a) my ssh client do work correctly with ip-addresses, but wrongly with
> hostnames.
> By using ssh <hostname> -v, I discovered that it tries always to
> connect to address 1.0.0.0
> Then, it returns a "connection time out" message

I'm wondering if something along the line is misinterpretting a
"-1" meaning failure as an IP address. Do you have the name service
cache (nscd) running, and if so does stopping it make any difference?

Do you have multiple nameservers listed in /etc/resolv.conf and do they
all work? What SSH software and version is this?

I suspect that strace'ing ssh during the failure will provide a clue as
to where the bogus address is coming from. 

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