Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 17:40:26 -0500 From: David Loszewski <stealth215@mediaone.net> To: Alex <akruijff@dds.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: extremely slow SSH process Message-ID: <3C80035A.2010401@mediaone.net> References: <3C7FFE8C.4010601@mediaone.net> <14415526746.20020301234016@cybertron.tmfweb.nl>
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I'm logging in via ip though not domain name. Does this not make a difference? Dave Alex wrote: >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. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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