Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 18:20:42 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Robert Marella <rmarella@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, luke <lgrady@gmail.com> Subject: Re: ssh delays 40 seconds (revisited) Message-ID: <42AB71CA.8050107@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <42AB694C.4040302@gmail.com> References: <5EEBE9C3C61D1142994C6B620C51E847110B80@depot.weblinkmo.com> <17059.37867.174248.688500@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <42A3A5F4.8090807@gmail.com> <20050606023235.GA81334@osiris.chen.org.nz> <42A3B9B6.5070800@gmail.com> <20050606025554.GB81546@osiris.chen.org.nz> <42A3BCF9.8090200@gmail.com> <42A3CBF8.5020809@daleco.biz> <5fee5e3005060612044d4197fe@mail.gmail.com> <42AB694C.4040302@gmail.com>
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Robert Marella wrote: > luke wrote: > >> also, you might want to look into the UseDNS option in the sshd_config >> file. this will cause the server to not perform dns lookups on >> connecting hosts. >> > > Curious and more curious. I updated one of my systems to 5.4 p2 today > and just for grins I changed the UseDNS option back to "yes". Then I > restarted sshd and there was no delay. > > I then changed the UseDNS option on all of the other boxes (5.4 REL) > to yes and restarted sshd and they all work without delay. > > So, I am back to where I was before I went to where I got. And > everything works like it always did. Any idea why this happened to so > many people last weekend. Or should we just smile and go about our > merry way. > > Thanks to all who responded last weekend. > > Robert Did you get reverse DNS set up in the interceding few days, as you said you thought you might look into when you typed: ] The consensus was ] that I need DNS/named working on my gateway/firewall so I will be ] reading and studying to have that working in the near future. ] .... just curious, as you are "curious and more curious" :-D Kevin Kinsey
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