From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 23 13:21:53 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93A2716A41F for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:21:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joao.barros@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2D4143D5D for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:21:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joao.barros@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id t12so450728wxc for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 05:21:52 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=lkPtpkPYd6F1DcVMeMvV9WksWxJxTXIfvPeUV4m5awl+kruO2OjaKl8o+LTyYLb/oeZoVlrbrqkvzRar67BsrQHm6iMDJCpQvqI3qeTzK7B8cbGhY7cfCTI+PHcLzp5JZRpRJzR0RfQI/gG6M6y3gYEX8qVNhlGj2tSXGVqO0+s= Received: by 10.70.26.8 with SMTP id 8mr3254872wxz; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 05:21:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.36.7 with HTTP; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 05:21:52 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <70e8236f0512230521l2feb988bjb6d4e8a2e5895171@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:21:52 +0000 From: Joao Barros 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 Subject: Re: SSH login takes very long time...sometimes X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:21:53 -0000 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? > Most probably it's a reverse dns issue. You can either check your dns/hosts setup or tcpdump the traffic when you try to login a machine. -- Joao Barros