Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:25:08 -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: <20020917232508.126785D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:20:22 PDT." <20020917232022.26731.qmail@web20105.mail.yahoo.com>
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> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:20:22 -0700 (PDT) > From: Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> > > > --- Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> 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
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