Bind 8 ssh problem

[Patrick Fleming EA]

On 9 Dec 2001, Nathan England wrote:

> 
> 
> I am running bind 8 on my server. I have all my systems setup in bind.
> Everything seems to work fine,except ssh.
> My servers name is fallout. My laptop is deadsoul.
> If I try to ssh to fallout from deadsoul it sits and waits about 20
> seconds. I assume this is because it is trying to reverse my address.
> But none of my other computers have this problem.

Does it connect or fail? If it fails I would look at the /etc/hosts file 
on deadsoul to see if all names are listed for fallout:
192.168.1.1	fallout fallout.the-arcanum.org
You could get away with just fallout since everything else is in your zone 
files.
Make sure that /etc/resolv.conf starts with the line
hosts, dns
which will resolve names first from /etc/hosts, then from the zone files.
HTH


> In my bind configuration I have a cname setup for www to point to
> fallout, as well as ftp, mail, smtp, and ldap.
> 
> If I ssh to any of the cnames instead of fallout directly it works fine,
> instantly. Or if I ssh to fallout.the-arcanum.org using the full domain
> name then it works fine.
> 
> However fallout alone takes forever.
> This only happens between fallout and deadsoul.
> Deadsoul doesn't have that problem to either soulblighter or taliesin,
> and neither taliesin or soulblighter have the problem with fallout or
> deadsoul.
> 
> Can anyone think of why only fallout would be causing problems???
> Thank you for any help.
> 
> 
> Here are my config. files.
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  /etc/named.conf
> 
> 
> options {
>         directory "/var/named";
>         
>         // query-source address * port 53;
> };
> 
> 
> zone "." IN {
>         type hint;
>         file "named.ca";
> };
> 
> zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
>         type master;
>         file "/var/named/192.168.1.rev";
>         };
> 
> zone "the-arcanum.org" {
>         type master;
>         file "/var/named/the-arcanum.org.hosts";
>         };
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   /var/named/192.168.1.rev
> 
> 
> $ttl 38400
> 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN      SOA     fallout.the-arcanum.org.
> webmaster.the-arcanum.org. (
>                         1007881968
>                         10800
>                         3600
>                         604800
>                         38400 )
> 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN      NS      fallout.the-arcanum.org.
> 1.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.       IN      PTR    the-arcanum.org.
> 1.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.       IN      PTR    fallout.the-arcanum.org.
> 12.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.      IN      PTR    deadsoul.the-arcanum.org.
> 13.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.      IN      PTR
> soulblighter.the-arcanum.org.
> 14.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.      IN      PTR    taliesin.the-arcanum.org.
> 
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  /var/named/the-arcanum.org.hosts
> 
> $ttl 38400
> the-arcanum.org.        IN      SOA     fallout.
> webmaster.the-arcanum.org. (
>                         1007882165
>                         10800
>                         3600
>                         604800
>                         38400 )
> the-arcanum.org.        IN      NS      fallout.
> the-arcanum.org.                IN      A       192.168.1.1
> fallout.the-arcanum.org.        IN      A       192.168.1.1
> deadsoul.the-arcanum.org.       IN      A       192.168.1.12
> soulblighter.the-arcanum.org.   IN      A       192.168.1.13
> taliesin.the-arcanum.org.       IN      A       192.168.1.14
> 
> www.the-arcanum.org.    IN      CNAME   fallout
> mail.the-arcanum.org.   IN      CNAME   fallout
> proxy.the-arcanum.org.  IN      CNAME   fallout
> smtp.the-arcanum.org.   IN      CNAME   fallout
> 
> 

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