From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 18 10:02:07 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF4E616A4CE for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:02:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mta3.wss.scd.yahoo.com (mta3.wss.scd.yahoo.com [66.218.85.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FBA443D49 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:02:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsdrockford@pastrytech.com) Received: from [220.210.76.127] (220.210.76.127) by mta3.wss.scd.yahoo.com (7.0.016) (authenticated as maupin@pastrytech.com) id 40A02B7E01B94566 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2004 03:01:06 -0700 Message-ID: <40D2BEEA.4050908@pastrytech.com> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 19:07:38 +0900 From: RF User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20040617231735.3298716A4CE@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20040617231735.3298716A4CE@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: login troubles (password prompt is slow to appear) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: bsdrockford@pastrytech.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:02:07 -0000 Hello, I'm new to FreeBSD and am trying to work on a remote server. I started out with 5.2, but it was a NIGHTMARE trying to install the combination of software I want, because certain ports didn't work, certain packages didn't work, and I had to use older versions than what I wanted sometimes. In configuring the system, I had to reinstall Python. From that moment on I have had the following problem: Connecting via SSH displays the login prompt immediately, but after typing a username it takes between 30 seconds to 60+ for the password prompt to appear. Sometimes Putty times out waiting for a connection. Blaming 5.2 for my problems, I had the drive wiped and 4.9 installed... and the password prompt still takes forever to appear. Anyone know what's going on? I heard something about FreeBSD doing a DNS on every connecting IP and that adding my IP (which is unfortunately not static) to etc/hosts would bypass the lookup... but it still takes a long time. For about 2 weeks before I screwed up the system, I could SSH in with no problems. What's odd is that a fresh install of 4.9 is doing the same thing. Any help or suggestions are appreciated. Rockford