From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 23 19:22:50 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8968216A41F; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 19:22:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sean@cyberwang.net) Received: from imf25aec.mail.bellsouth.net (imf25aec.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.59.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3588543D5F; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 19:22:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sean@cyberwang.net) Received: from ibm69aec.bellsouth.net ([68.19.113.81]) by imf25aec.mail.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20051223192234.BHNI4211.imf25aec.mail.bellsouth.net@ibm69aec.bellsouth.net>; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:22:34 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.100] (really [68.19.113.81]) by ibm69aec.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20051223192234.PQUJ10934.ibm69aec.bellsouth.net@[192.168.10.100]>; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:22:34 -0500 Message-ID: <43AC4E6D.4060107@cyberwang.net> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:22:21 -0500 From: Sean Bryant User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Tanis References: <43ABF6E4.2090908@ll.mit.edu> <65dcde740512230945j11b1e3f9ied13a8129f568091@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <65dcde740512230945j11b1e3f9ied13a8129f568091@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: stable@freebsd.org, "Michael A. Koerber" , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSH login takes very long time...sometimes X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 19:22:50 -0000 James Tanis wrote: >For whatever reason, I have had a similar problem which was solved by >entering the machines that you are logging in from into the hosts >file. I'm guessing it attempts a reverse lookup and your (as well as >my) dns/hostname does not match its reverse lookup entry. > >On 12/23/05, Michael A. Koerber wrote: > > >>All, >> >> I have three machines that have had 5.4 and 6.0 installed. Two of the three machines have very >>well behaved "ssh". However, the machine (laptop) named OBOE does not. >> >> Specifically "ssh oboe" will (most of the time) hang for around one minute before asking for a >>prompt. However, if I'm logged into OBOE and "ssh BSD" (one of the other machines) a password is >>requested within a couple seconds. (I said most of the time, since on occasion I can reboot OBOE >>and ssh will work just fine...hmmm.) >> >> I have looked through the /var/log files for clues and skimmed "man ssh" for time out related >>stuff, but no luck. >> >> Where should I start looking for clues? >> >> All machines have had clean installs from "newfs'd" drive under both 5.4 and 6.0 so I'm sure no >>left over configs are getting propagated. >>-- >>--------------------- >>Dr Michael A. Koerber >>x3250 >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> >> > > >-- >James Tanis >jtanis@pycoder.org >http://pycoder.org >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Try disabling sendmail. I don't remember exactly how I came up with this solution but I remember sendmail was the problem. This might work for you as well.