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Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 04:34:17 -0700
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Bsd Newbie <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: loooooong connection time when ssh-ing into freebsd box
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On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 01:18:40AM -0700, Bsd Newbie wrote:
>=20
> I have an odd problem...=20
>=20
> Sometimes when I ssh into my freebsd box it connects immediately... on
> other occasions (like now) it takes ages... and then times out.
>=20
> There is no traffic on my network... anyone have any ideas as to what's
> causing this delay?

You probably have DNS resolution problems.  SSH will try and resolve
the forward and reverse DNS entries for the remote client.  If it
can't get a response from the server, it takes about 60 seconds to
time out.

Kris

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