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Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 14:26:12 -0800
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: David Loszewski <stealth215@mediaone.net>
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Subject: Re: extremely slow SSH process
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On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 05:19:56PM -0500, David Loszewski wrote:
> What would cause an extremely slow SSH login process?  I'm trying to log=
=20
> into an internal FreeBSD 4.5 machine but it takes about 3 minutes until=
=20
> it comes up asking for the password and then another three minutes until=
=20
> it actually logs me in.  The conenction itself is fast, no packet loss.=
=20
>  Once I'm logged in everything seems fine.  This OS is fresh installed=20
> just a few hours ago so I haven't even installed anything on it yet. =20

This is almost always due to unavailable or incorrectly set up DNS or
reverse DNS settings.

Kris

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