Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:53:43 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: n dhert <ndhert@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Starting sshd, ssh connections Message-ID: <20091229185343.GC35428@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <8021a2660912291004h2590b06atdb54ba14d5e31d5@mail.gmail.com> References: <8021a2660912291004h2590b06atdb54ba14d5e31d5@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 07:04:24PM +0100, n dhert wrote:
> On a newly installed FreeBSD7.2, when booting it takes a long time to get
> past "Starting sshd.".
> I'm using the PC only in a private network. The IP of the PC is 192.168.75.8
> # ssh root@192.168.75.8
> or # ssh root@127.0.0.1
> take both 15 seconds to display
> Password: ...
> At setup, I did specify a hostname, a domainname, a default_router
> (192.168.75.14) and
> DNS server 192.168.254.100 (in the future to be replace by non-private IPs),
>
> but since I am testing only in a private network and only with IP adresses
> (no hostnames)
> these are not used.
> So what is causing that delay at Start of sshd and use of ssh?
Reverse DNS lookup. Make sure you have PTR entries for all IPs in use.
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Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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