From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 23 13:26:44 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 498E816A41F; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:26:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81F3E43D5D; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:26:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jBNDQUmU012490; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 07:26:30 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <43ABFAFF.9000306@centtech.com> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 07:26:23 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051204) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael A. Koerber" References: <43ABF6E4.2090908@ll.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <43ABF6E4.2090908@ll.mit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1213/Mon Dec 19 08:48:34 2005 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: stable@freebsd.org, 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 13:26:44 -0000 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. > > Check your DNS (or reverse DNS really) on the laptop (OBOE). Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------