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Date:      Thu, 1 Dec 2005 04:23:30 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net>
To:        Foo Ji-Haw <jhfoo@nexlabs.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: faster ssh session?
Message-ID:  <20051201042247.V78580@chylonia.3miasto.net>
In-Reply-To: <01bb01c5f624$afbe0a50$c801a8c0@nexpc>
References:  <01bb01c5f624$afbe0a50$c801a8c0@nexpc>

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> I have a well and working setup of FBSD 5.4. Nothing much to complain about, but I hope to resolve this oddity.
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> 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.

it's more general problem - DNS queries have to timeout.

quickest solution (if it's your private lan) is to add entries to 
/etc/hosts



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