Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 42704
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2006/4/6-7 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:42704 Activity:nil
4/5     Problem: sshd acting weird. Platform: Linux 2.6.x. Symptoms: Ssh
        \_ I thought Soda ran FreeBSD
        connection got stuck all of a sudden. Cannot ssh into the machine.
        Ping ok, and apache2 apparently working. Console log-in takes +5 min &
        nothing weird in /var/log/*.log. Restarted sshd a few times, no luck.
        Restarted the machine, everything's normal. Two hours later, sshd
        is weird again. Same symptoms. What are some possible culprits?
        \_ NIS or NFS?
        \_ Hmm... any chance you have a bad disk?  sshd's virtual memory is
           writing to bad blocks, which causes it to run very slow?  Or the
           blocks where your auth.log or something else that gets written to
           on login? -dans
        \_ NFS mounted home dir on remote file server.  DNS lookup failure
           on that NFS mount, or DNS reverse lookup failure on remote host
           but the console login delay implies NFS failure.  Or it could be
           something entirely different.  :-)  But I'd check those two first.
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