From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 23 17:46:00 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 C1D8716A420 for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:46:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jrtanis@gmail.com) Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF58E43D68 for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:45:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jrtanis@gmail.com) Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id l37so243660nfc for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 09:45:58 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=LQelLmRSjgm25W4K9c6e2q2MioLywLVoMJN7dNcYJcpccKWFU49ZRSzEAsQuQrL0FHUnVbs209Xhp+HjmdO59YWvRsiVQ9VHK4Dh9vydJS/MIXw5o1t8jLRG3Q8GL1NV+8El71OSARZhVwiYQQwshQReE6oqeylaZd5ulW33/60= Received: by 10.49.2.9 with SMTP id e9mr149764nfi; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 09:45:58 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.48.216.10 with HTTP; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 09:45:58 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <65dcde740512230945j11b1e3f9ied13a8129f568091@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:45:58 -0500 From: James Tanis Sender: jrtanis@gmail.com To: "Michael A. Koerber" In-Reply-To: <43ABF6E4.2090908@ll.mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <43ABF6E4.2090908@ll.mit.edu> 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 17:46:00 -0000 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 min= ute 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 oc= casion 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