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Subject: Re: Extremely slow authentication via SSH on FreeBSD 6.0
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On Monday 09 January 2006 08:18, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0I should be more specific. Setting UseDNS to no d=
id the trick.
> Maybe =A0 sshd was confused by my hostname setup in /etc/hosts, but I'm n=
ot
> going to speculate there. All that I know is that it works like it used to
> =3D).
> -Garrett


I've had this problem before.  You can keep DNS turned on if /etc/resolv.co=
nf=20
contains reachable nameservers.  The DNS lookup timeout in sshd is very long

Ashley