From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 1 14:43: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from boston3.g4.net (boston3.G4.NET [216.177.0.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2096537B417 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 14:43:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from mediaone.net (gate.office.g4.net [216.177.0.159] (may be forged)) by boston3.g4.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g21Mh6826152; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 17:43:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from stealth215@mediaone.net) Message-ID: <3C80035A.2010401@mediaone.net> Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 17:40:26 -0500 From: David Loszewski Reply-To: stealth215@mediaone.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20020111 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: extremely slow SSH process References: <3C7FFE8C.4010601@mediaone.net> <14415526746.20020301234016@cybertron.tmfweb.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed 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 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