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Date:      Tue, 4 Oct 2005 19:38:01 -1000
From:      Robert Marella <rmarella@gmail.com>
To:        Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Hosts/dns contention in FBSD 5.4
Message-ID:  <20051004193801.7b84cd0e@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <200510051135.35932.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
References:  <200510050050.26723.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> <A8A8B9D2-0248-4C6D-8932-5EB9E2ADDC10@segpub.com.au> <200510051135.35932.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>

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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



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