Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 23:40:16 +0100 From: Alex <FreeBSD@cybertron.tmfweb.nl> To: David Loszewski <stealth215@mediaone.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: extremely slow SSH process Message-ID: <14415526746.20020301234016@cybertron.tmfweb.nl> In-Reply-To: <3C7FFE8C.4010601@mediaone.net> References: <3C7FFE8C.4010601@mediaone.net>
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Hello David, Friday, March 01, 2002, 11:19:56 PM, you wrote: DL> What would cause an extremely slow SSH login process? I'm trying to log DL> into an internal FreeBSD 4.5 machine but it takes about 3 minutes until DL> it comes up asking for the password and then another three minutes until DL> it actually logs me in. The conenction itself is fast, no packet loss. DL> Once I'm logged in everything seems fine. This OS is fresh installed DL> just a few hours ago so I haven't even installed anything on it yet. DL> Any ideas or suggestions would help, DL> Dave You need to have access/setup a (reverse-)DNS server. The client want to do a reverse lookup. If sucha DNS server doesn't exist it waits a couple of min before it concludes it doesn't exist. I think this is happening at you computer. -- Best regards, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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