From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 5 05:38:05 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC5F216A41F for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 05:38:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rmarella@gmail.com) Received: from ms-smtp-02-eri0.socal.rr.com (ms-smtp-02-qfe0.socal.rr.com [66.75.162.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5683443D45 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 05:38:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rmarella@gmail.com) Received: from localhost (cpe-70-93-57-42.hawaii.res.rr.com [70.93.57.42]) by ms-smtp-02-eri0.socal.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id j955c28u016585; Tue, 4 Oct 2005 22:38:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 19:38:01 -1000 From: Robert Marella To: Malcolm Kay Message-ID: <20051004193801.7b84cd0e@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200510051135.35932.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> References: <200510050050.26723.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> <200510051135.35932.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.14 (GTK+ 2.6.10; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hosts/dns contention in FBSD 5.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 05:38:05 -0000 On 05/10/2005, at 1:20 AM, Malcolm Kay wrote: > ... > But if the internet connection breaks -- e.g. the routers > crash or the ISP connection fails for some reason then > trying to ssh into the machine from another local machine is > a problem -- either timing out our taking a very very long > time. I had this same problem before and was advised to change #UseDNS yes to no in sshd_config It did help. Good luck Robert