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Subject: Re: faster ssh session?
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At 07:09 PM 11/30/2005, Foo Ji-Haw wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I have a well and working setup of FBSD 5.4. Nothing much to 
>complain about, but I hope to resolve this oddity.

put

UseDNS no

in your /etc/ssh/sshd_config

-Glenn


>If I were to open a SSH connection to the box from an IP that cannot 
>be reverse dns queried, the box takes a little while before giving 
>the username prompt. Is there a way to turn off reverse dns query? 
>This happens to the smtp service (running on inetd) as well.
>
>Thanks in advance.
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