Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:36:18 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: long pause when SSH'ing to FreeBSD server Message-ID: <20020917223618.7BE615D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Sep 2002 14:46:47 PDT." <20020917214647.86936.qmail@web20109.mail.yahoo.com>
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> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 14:46:47 -0700 (PDT) > From: Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > this happens intermittantly. > > i don't know why, but when i connect to my FreeBSD box using putty, there > is an extremely long pause for the following: > > 1. the login prompt to come up > 2. the password prompt to come up after i type in the username > 3. the connection to be established after i enter the password > > can anyone let me know how i can aleviate this pause problem? It's almost certainly a DNS problem. Make sure that both forward and reverse DNS is working for the names/addresses of both systems. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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