Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 23:50:23 +0100 From: Alex <akruijff@dds.nl> To: David Loszewski <stealth215@mediaone.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: extremely slow SSH process Message-ID: <4716134570.20020301235023@dds.nl> In-Reply-To: <3C80035A.2010401@mediaone.net> References: <3C7FFE8C.4010601@mediaone.net> <14415526746.20020301234016@cybertron.tmfweb.nl> <3C80035A.2010401@mediaone.net>
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Hello David, Friday, March 01, 2002, 11:40:26 PM, you wrote: please don't top post. It better to understand by others this way. >>DL> What would cause an extremely slow SSH login process? I'm trying to log >>DL> into an internal FreeBSD 4.5 machine but it takes about 3 minutes until >>DL> it comes up asking for the password and then another three minutes until >>DL> it actually logs me in. The conenction itself is fast, no packet loss. >>DL> Once I'm logged in everything seems fine. This OS is fresh installed >>DL> just a few hours ago so I haven't even installed anything on it yet. >> >>You need to have access/setup a (reverse-)DNS server. The client want to >>do a reverse lookup. If sucha DNS server doesn't exist it waits a >>couple of min before it concludes it doesn't exist. I think this is >>happening at you computer. DL> I'm logging in via ip though not domain name. Does this not make a DL> difference? DL> Dave no, ssh want to find the domain name that belong with that ip. -- Best regards, Alex mailto:akruijff@dds.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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