From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 12 04:44:47 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F4CA16A41F for ; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 04:44:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rmarella@gmail.com) Received: from ms-smtp-01-eri0.socal.rr.com (ms-smtp-01-qfe0.socal.rr.com [66.75.162.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2380643D1F for ; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 04:44:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rmarella@gmail.com) Received: from [10.0.0.101] (cpe-66-8-186-59.hawaii.res.rr.com [66.8.186.59]) by ms-smtp-01-eri0.socal.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id j5C4igFf002061; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 21:44:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42ABBDBA.6010408@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 18:44:42 -1000 From: Robert Marella User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050512 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Kinsey References: <5EEBE9C3C61D1142994C6B620C51E847110B80@depot.weblinkmo.com> <17059.37867.174248.688500@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <42A3A5F4.8090807@gmail.com> <20050606023235.GA81334@osiris.chen.org.nz> <42A3B9B6.5070800@gmail.com> <20050606025554.GB81546@osiris.chen.org.nz> <42A3BCF9.8090200@gmail.com> <42A3CBF8.5020809@daleco.biz> <5fee5e3005060612044d4197fe@mail.gmail.com> <42AB694C.4040302@gmail.com> <42AB71CA.8050107@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <42AB71CA.8050107@daleco.biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, luke Subject: Re: ssh delays 40 seconds (revisited) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 04:44:47 -0000 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