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Date:      Thu, 19 Apr 2001 13:41:28 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com>
To:        Voutah <voutah@detroit.org>
Cc:        Freebsd-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <20010419133818.P6772-100000@home.sasknow.net>
In-Reply-To: <KHEMIHGPHOJKPKMGFNDMCEOMCBAA.voutah@detroit.org>

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Voutah wrote to Freebsd-Questions:

> I'm using a 4.2-freebsd release as a firewall and packet forwarding
> router. There's no screen or keyboard attached to the computer,
> everything is done through SSH. Sometimes when i try to login using
> SSH he waits for about 1 minute after entering my username and
> password before displaying the MOTD and the bash prompt. While a
> telnet login is very fast.
>
> I'm using Putty as my SSH client on a win2k server and a win2k
> professional machine, no differe between pro and server.

I wouldn't be at all suprised if you're experiencing DNS problems. Check
the IP of the machine you're connecting from. Does its reverse resolve on
the firewall machine? SSH checks that--you may be feeling the hit of a DNS
timeout.

> Voutah,
>


- Ryan


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