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Date:      Wed, 5 Dec 2001 13:55:51 +0000
From:      Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net>
To:        krzysztof <cs052279@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SSH hanging/DNS problem??
Message-ID:  <20011205135551.G3320@twincat.vladsempire.net>
In-Reply-To: <20011205152643.45808.qmail@web14807.mail.yahoo.com>; from cs052279@yahoo.com on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 07:26:43AM -0800
References:  <20011205152643.45808.qmail@web14807.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 07:26:43AM -0800, krzysztof wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
>     I'm having a problem with SSH hanging for a couple
> minutes everytime I try to log in.  It happens when I
> log in using my domain name.  When I use the IP
> address there is no problem.  My authlog displays
> "Could not reverse map address <MY-IPADDRESS>".  Is
> this a misconfiguration on the Domain servers I am
> using or a misconfiguration in the ssh config files?

This is a DNS issue.  The delay you are seeing is the 3 reverse dns 
lookups that have to time out before you can log in.  Fix your reverse 
DNS and the problem will go away.

Josh

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