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From: Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net>
To: krzysztof <cs052279@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: SSH hanging/DNS problem??
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On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 07:26:43AM -0800, krzysztof wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
>     I'm having a problem with SSH hanging for a couple
> minutes everytime I try to log in.  It happens when I
> log in using my domain name.  When I use the IP
> address there is no problem.  My authlog displays
> "Could not reverse map address <MY-IPADDRESS>".  Is
> this a misconfiguration on the Domain servers I am
> using or a misconfiguration in the ssh config files?

This is a DNS issue.  The delay you are seeing is the 3 reverse dns 
lookups that have to time out before you can log in.  Fix your reverse 
DNS and the problem will go away.

Josh

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