From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 17 17:44:15 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 CB21437B401 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 17:44:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-88.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4060443E75 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 17:44:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B69F866B62; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 17:44:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 17:44:11 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Bsd Neophyte Cc: Kevin Oberman , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: long pause when SSH'ing to FreeBSD server Message-ID: <20020918004411.GB28591@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20020917223618.7BE615D04@ptavv.es.net> <20020917232022.26731.qmail@web20105.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="TakKZr9L6Hm6aLOc" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020917232022.26731.qmail@web20105.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 --TakKZr9L6Hm6aLOc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 04:20:22PM -0700, Bsd Neophyte wrote: >=20 > --- 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 > > >=20 > > > can anyone let me know how i can aleviate this pause problem? > >=20 > > It's almost certainly a DNS problem. Make sure that both forward and > > reverse DNS is working for the names/addresses of both systems. >=20 > 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 --TakKZr9L6Hm6aLOc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9h8xbWry0BWjoQKURAs3GAJ9DJ9lQUSLI8v36Ouf74Sga8vCJxACgj3mp 0O1ank5jgolLXfIgQ9is9+E= =6FU9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TakKZr9L6Hm6aLOc-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message