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To: Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: long pause when SSH'ing to FreeBSD server 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 17 Sep 2002 14:46:47 PDT."
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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:36:18 -0700
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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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

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