sshd.exe waits repeatedly with SYN_SENT for inaccessible ldap

[basinilya@gmail.com]

Hi. The problem first appeared ten days ago. It now takes minutes to login as a domain user. Tcpview shows that sshd.exe is trying to connect an inaccessible server on the port 389 (ldap). If I close the socket using Tcpview, successful login happens sooner. Both password and public key logins are affected, but with a public key sshd.exe tries to connect that server multiple times. Also, if I don't close the sockets repeatedly, ssh disconnects from the SSH server after 2 minutes of silence before the "last login" line appears:

    $ time ssh -vvv localhost
    ...
    debug1: Offering public key:
    debug3: send packet: type 50
    debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply
    
    
    debug3: receive packet: type 60
    debug1: Server accepts key: 
    debug3: sign_and_send_pubkey: RSA
    debug3: sign_and_send_pubkey: signing using rsa-sha2-512
    debug3: send packet: type 50
    
    
    Connection closed by ::1 port 22
    
    real    2m0.292s
    user    0m0.045s
    sys     0m0.122s



Besedes, sshd.exe has a live connection on port 389 to another server all the time.


I can't see anything interesting in sshd log. At least the ldap ip address does not appear in the log.

    ...
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2021-01-22T18:52:09.7210295Z" /> 
    <Data>sshd: PID 1786: debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 1087042/1049089 (e=18/18)</Data> 
      
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2021-01-22T18:52:51.9304939Z" /> 
    <Data>sshd: PID 1786: debug1: trying public key file /home/basin/.ssh/authorized_keys</Data> 
    ...
    
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2021-01-22T18:53:21.6284471Z" /> 
    <Data>sshd: PID 1786: debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 1087042/1049089 (e=18/18)</Data> 
    ...
    
    
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2021-01-22T18:54:03.7296838Z" /> 
    <Data>sshd: PID 1786: debug1: trying public key file /home/basin/.ssh/authorized_keys</Data> 
    ...
    
    
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2021-01-22T18:54:03.7296838Z" /> 
    <Data>sshd: PID 1786: debug1: monitor_child_preauth: basin has been authenticated by privileged process</Data> 
    ...
    
    
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2021-01-22T18:54:09.6686942Z" /> 
    <Data>sshd: PID 1652: debug1: main_sigchld_handler: Child exited</Data> 

BTW, is it possible to make sshd write to a log file instead of Windows Event Log?