name resolution, but rather sshd problem

Meier Adrian <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.admin.managers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi all,

We use Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1 (Pensacola) without any errata or quartal
updates. To administrate the servers remotly we use the OpenSSH suite
supplied by official RPMs and did not change the default sshd_config.

A measurement with the shell keyword "time" shows me that "ssh hostname"
take 21 seconds till I can enter the password. By adding the prefix
domain.ch (ssh hostname.domain.ch) the same not even take a half second.

The stub resolver (resolv.conf) ist properly configurated with valid named
servers and "search domain.ch" plus "domain domain.ch". In /etc/hosts there
is a correct entry below localhost with IP address and hostname.domain.ch.
The nsswitch.conf (and host.conf) points "hosts" to files then dns. The
error is definitely not our named configuration, because with SUN and
Windows servers it works fine.

The really freaky is: the output of "nslookup hostname", "traceroute i37390"
and "ping hostname" appears immediately. The answer given by "dig hostname"
is "connection timed out; no servers could be reached" although a trace show
me that he take the right named server.

Because i think the problem is the ssh client, here a debug:
# ssh -v -v hostname
OpenSSH_3.1p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090602f
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug1: Rhosts Authentication disabled, originating port will not be
trusted.
debug1: restore_uid
debug1: ssh_connect: getuid 0 geteuid 0 anon 1
[waiting, waiting]
debug1: Connecting to hostname [192.168.x.x] port 22.

The IP settings on eth0 are correct
(/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0).

Hope anyone can help me. Any suggestions are welcome.

best regards
Adrian Meier
 
UNIX systems administrator
T-Systems Switzerland
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