From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 19 12:41:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from home.sasknow.net (stimpy.sasknow.net [207.195.92.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D08837B423 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 12:41:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by home.sasknow.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3JDfT006847; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 13:41:29 GMT (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) X-Authentication-Warning: home.sasknow.net: ryan owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 13:41:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Ryan Thompson X-X-Sender: To: Voutah Cc: Freebsd-Questions Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20010419133818.P6772-100000@home.sasknow.net> Organization: SaskNow Technologies [www.sasknow.com] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message