No Remote Login possible at the IWI

November 2007


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The Problem
Investigation and solution

I try to do my daily login at the IWI, and ssh waits a long time (three minutes), then the connection is cut off. This is symptomatic for NIS-servers nog functioning. A day earlier I have seriously edited the DHCP config (see , and I am worried that I have misdirected the NIS clients to the wrong NIS server, a problem which would typically surface after the clients renew their DHCP leases.