From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 17 16:20:24 2002 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 6FADA37B401 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:20:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web20105.mail.yahoo.com (web20105.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2163743E88 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:20:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdneophyte@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20020917232022.26731.qmail@web20105.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.65.83.156] by web20105.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:20:22 PDT Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:20:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Bsd Neophyte Subject: Re: long pause when SSH'ing to FreeBSD server To: Kevin Oberman Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20020917223618.7BE615D04@ptavv.es.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- Kevin Oberman wrote: > > 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. i use the ip address though... and i'm not using any dns services on the FreeBSD box (i really don't know how to set it up to begin with) does this still make it a dns problem? __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message