Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:04:53 -0400 (EDT) From: "Thomas (Matt) Barton" <matt@fear.net> To: Voutah <voutah@detroit.org> Cc: Freebsd-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0104191604120.11121-100000@fear.net> In-Reply-To: <KHEMIHGPHOJKPKMGFNDMCEOMCBAA.voutah@detroit.org>
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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
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