From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 19 14: 3:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fear.net (fear.net [207.180.208.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B793737B42C for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 14:03:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@fear.net) Received: from fear.net (matt@fear.net [207.180.208.7]) by fear.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA19144; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:04:54 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:04:53 -0400 (EDT) From: "Thomas (Matt) Barton" To: Voutah Cc: Freebsd-Questions Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Voutah wrote: > I'm using a 4.2-freebsd release as a firewall and packet forwarding > router. There's no screen or keyboard attached to the computer, > everything is done through SSH. Sometimes when i try to login using > SSH he waits for about 1 minute after entering my username and > password before displaying the MOTD and the bash prompt. While a > telnet login is very fast. I'm using Putty as my SSH client on a win2k > server and a win2k professional machine, no differe between pro and > server. I believe the problem is that OpenSSH is trying to do a reverse DNS lookup, which is why it takes so long. Try adding your IP and host name to your /etc/hosts file and see if that make sit work any better. -- Matt Barton matt@fear.net Indianapolis, IN http://www.mattbarton.ws/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message