On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 09:35 -0800, Mike Wright wrote: > Hi all, > > This is my third day of chasing it and am still trying to resolve this > issue. > > Left the box running overnight but by morning it had hung. Reboot found > a trashed format: disk completely inaccessable, so... > > Just performed a clean install of fc6 and have not added any new > packages or any other software. The machine was given a host name that > resolves with dns. Just to be sure iptables/ip6tables was disabled on > machines at both ends of the connection. > > I opened an xterm just beneath the clock, ssh'd to a remote machine on > the same subnet, then ssh'd back to the new fc6 box. It gave me back a > password prompt. > > At 9:00:00 I pressed enter in response to the password request > At 9:00:40 the message "Last login: Sun Nov 5...." > At 9:01:00 I finally got the remote system prompt [mike@test ~]$ > > I repeated this numerous times and each time it took exactly 60 seconds: > 40 seconds until the "Last login" message, then 20 more until the sytem > prompt. > > I think this 20/40/60 seconds may be the clue, but don't know what > services/processes have those numbers hard coded into them. > > ssh/rsync outbound works correctly; only inbound connections have this > problem. > > Has anybody else experienced this? Would definitely appreciate help > with this. > > Thanks, > Mike Wright > Hi Mike Just a suggestion as you are desperate ! Put the names and IP's in /etc/hosts on both machines and try again I have a feeling the delay will go DNS reverse lookup may then be the problem John -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list