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Date:      Sat, 11 Jun 2005 18:44:42 -1000
From:      Robert Marella <rmarella@gmail.com>
To:        Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, luke <lgrady@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: ssh delays 40 seconds (revisited)
Message-ID:  <42ABBDBA.6010408@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <42AB71CA.8050107@daleco.biz>
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Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> Robert Marella wrote:
> 
>> luke wrote:
>>
>>> also, you might want to look into the UseDNS option in the sshd_config
>>> file. this will cause the server to not perform dns lookups on
>>> connecting hosts.
>>>
>>
>> Curious and more curious. I updated one of my systems to 5.4 p2 today 
>> and just for grins I changed the UseDNS option back to "yes". Then I 
>> restarted sshd and there was no delay.
>>
>> I then changed the UseDNS option on all of the other boxes (5.4 REL) 
>> to yes and restarted sshd and they all work without delay.
>>
>> So, I am back to where I was before I went to where I got. And 
>> everything works like it always did. Any idea why this happened to so 
>> many people last weekend. Or should we just smile and go about our 
>> merry way.
>>
>> Thanks to all who responded last weekend.
>>
>> Robert
> 
> 
> 
> Did you get reverse DNS set up in the interceding few days, as you
> said you thought you might look into when you typed:
> 
> ] The consensus was
> ] that I need DNS/named working on my gateway/firewall so I will be
> ] reading and studying to have that working in the near future.
> ]
> 
> .... just curious, as you are "curious and more curious" :-D
> 
> Kevin Kinsey
> 
Ummm .. no. It was on my list of things to do that I didn't do.

You know what they say about curious. :)

Robert



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