Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 17:44:11 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> Cc: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: long pause when SSH'ing to FreeBSD server Message-ID: <20020918004411.GB28591@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20020917232022.26731.qmail@web20105.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020917223618.7BE615D04@ptavv.es.net> <20020917232022.26731.qmail@web20105.mail.yahoo.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 04:20:22PM -0700, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > > --- 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. The remote system does not know how you managed to make the connection (DNS name, host name or IP address; remember that in the end it makes the connection using the IP address via IP), but it always attempts to resolve your client's hostname when you connect. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9h8xbWry0BWjoQKURAs3GAJ9DJ9lQUSLI8v36Ouf74Sga8vCJxACgj3mp 0O1ank5jgolLXfIgQ9is9+E= =6FU9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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