From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 17 16:25:10 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 9FBB037B401 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:25:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postal3.es.net (postal3.es.net [198.128.3.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2797C43E88 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:25:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal3.es.net (Postal Node 3) with ESMTP id MUA74016; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:25:08 -0700 Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 126785D04; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:25:08 -0700 (PDT) To: Bsd Neophyte Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: long pause when SSH'ing to FreeBSD server In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:20:22 PDT." <20020917232022.26731.qmail@web20105.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:25:08 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20020917232508.126785D04@ptavv.es.net> 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 > Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:20:22 -0700 (PDT) > From: Bsd Neophyte > > > --- 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? Yes. ssh ALWAYS tries to resolve the ip address of the remote system. Try entering the address of the remote system into /etc/hosts. 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