[H-GEN] Is this a DNS configuration problem?

[Edwards_Ewan_B at cat.com]

On Wednesday 10 March 2004 20:17, R&J Stuart wrote:
>
> It certainly sounds like a DNS issue.  Remember that ssh will also
> probably try other things before prompting for a password so these
> may also be adversly affected by DNS (or whatever naming system you
> use).
>
> For example it will probably try to match a authorized_keys entry
> against the machine's public key and will probably do dns lookup
> (or two) for both ip and hostname which may take time.
>
> Given that you are using dynamic IPs, do they a hn->IP and then
> IP->hn correct (and consistent) for each case.

For the purposes of this exercise, the DHCP server has been configured 
with host statements to ensure the two test machines have 
(effectively) fixed IP addresses.  The DNS zone files have also been 
checked to ensure entries exist for both machines with the 'fixed' 
addresses.