From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 6 00:09:34 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F27F16A41C for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2005 00:09:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from smtp04.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp04.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52DEA43D55 for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2005 00:09:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from 209-6-197-67.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com (HELO jerusalem.litteratus.org.litteratus.org) (209.6.197.67) by smtp04.mrf.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 05 Jun 2005 20:09:32 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: i="3.93,171,1115006400"; d="scan'208"; a="43429149:sNHT19449242" From: Robert Huff MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17059.37867.174248.688500@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 20:08:11 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <5EEBE9C3C61D1142994C6B620C51E847110B80@depot.weblinkmo.com> References: <5EEBE9C3C61D1142994C6B620C51E847110B80@depot.weblinkmo.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta21) "corn" (+CVS-20050527) XEmacs Lucid Subject: RE: ssh delays 40 seconds X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 00:09:34 -0000 Richard J. Valenta writes: > I had this problem in the past, and it was due to DNS problems where my > IP from the client machine was unable to be resolved... but I think it > took longer than 40 seconds. I mentioned this in this list before, a > search of the list may help. Affirmed for the general case. "30 second delay, then normal network activity" _screams_ DNS misconfiguration, usually but not always in the client side. Robert Huff