Mail and login (vnc) "hang" then suddenly available again.
hi all,
I'm hoping someone can help me solve this one.
Quite often during the day, my mail server both pop and smtp will suddenly be "unavailable". At the same time if I try to connect to my server via VNC and try to login, the login screen will just hang there for say 1 minute or more, and then log in. At the same time that the login happens, the mail server comes to life again - or sometimes not.
Normally I need to restart the server to get it all working ok again. As soon as it restarts, the mail server is fine and everything is back to normal speed again.
Also, while the mail server is not reachable my my Mail app (Apple Mail) and the login window has ground to a halt thinking, the mail server can still be "pinged" ok, and the web server is still running fine too.
Any ideas?????
regan
I've been struggling with this, primarily with 10.4 servers but it did seem to affect my personal 10.5 server for a moment.
From what I can tell, the authentication 'server' in OS X is getting overloaded with invalid SSH login attempts. What seems to be happening is that once the server is overloaded with invalid login attempts it eventually takes a very long time to return a response whenever there is an attempt to authenticate a password (logging in to POP, IMAP, SMTP, account login screen, AFP, etc). It appeared that over time one could log in with a delay of a few seconds, then a few minutes, then 5-10 or more minutes. I think you'd find that if you waited long enough, your attempt to log in via VNC would eventually go through. Just be sure to not do anything in the Finder afterwards that requires authentication!
These login attempts never bothered me before because my passwords are robust and I've limited SSH login to only the admin user. As a temporary solution, I've simply disabled the SSH server (in Sys Prefs Sharing pane, called Remote Login). Ideally I'd like to fix the server and keep SSH on port 22, but I'm leaning towards changing the default port to keep the losers at bay.
Hope that helps.
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