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Date:      Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:26:01 +0000
From:      Pierre-Olivier Fur <pof@teamlog.com>
To:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Openssh-portable
Message-ID:  <3D3FE049.1000302@teamlog.com>

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  Dirk Janssen wrote:

>Scott Gerhardt schrieb:
>  
>
>>I just set up openssh-portable-3.4p1_5 from the ports on a 4.5-RELEASE
>>box and now ssh is very slow to login (60 seconds or more).  Other than
>>the delay, everything else works fine.  I couldn't find any answers in
>>the archives.
>>
>>Seems like DNS lookup issue.
>>
>>Is this a known problem and what is the suggested fix?
>>    
>>
>
>I had this problem too on one machine (others worked fine, all 
>4.6-Stable), it had nothing to do with my settings in sshd_config 
>(ReverseMappingCheck no). 
>It helped (I don't exactly know why) to copy my resolv.conf to the 
>directory /usr/local/empty/etc/ an chmod /usr/local/empty to 755.
>If /usr/local/empty doesn't exist, try /var/empty, this depends on how 
>you compiled openssh.
>If somebody knows why exactly this solution works it would be kind to let 
>me know.
>
>Regards,
>
>Dirk
>
I and some friends had this problem too on 4.5 and 4.4, I resolve it by 
setting up a local DNS server, so Scott you had a part of the answer.

Anyway I'm gonna try Dirk's solution cause I'd like to understand why it 
works too.

Cordialy

Piero


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