On Wednesday 04 May 2005 03:36, Alex Greg wrote: > On 5/3/05, Mike Klinke <lsomike@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > No - the machine doesn't use DHCP, it has two static IP > addresses. > OK, you have a machine with two NIC cards. Intermittantly, when you log in to the machine, from any other machine, via ssh via either NIC card you get the error message? What is your method of authenticating, shadow, NIS, LDAP? Are you using hosts.deny, hosts.allow? If so, tell us about the contents of these files? Is your sshd configuration an "out of the box" configuration? Have you noticed DNS problems with this machine too? Are they any notes in your syslog file at the time of the problem? Next time you start sshd add "-ddd" to give you more debug info. Regards, Mike Klinke