From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 1 14:40:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.wxs.nl (smtp05.wxs.nl [195.121.6.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E7B937B405 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 14:40:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from cybertron.kruijff ([213.10.151.186]) by smtp05.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GSBGBE00.O9I; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 23:40:26 +0100 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 23:40:16 +0100 From: Alex X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Reply-To: Alex X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <14415526746.20020301234016@cybertron.tmfweb.nl> To: David Loszewski Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: extremely slow SSH process In-Reply-To: <3C7FFE8C.4010601@mediaone.net> References: <3C7FFE8C.4010601@mediaone.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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