Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:23:36 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Jake Evans <jakeevans@ircds.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no reverse DNS causing connectivity problems Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20080609212259.025c03e0@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <20080609205426.N23640@awww.jeah.net> References: <20080609205426.N23640@awww.jeah.net>
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At 08:57 PM 6/9/2008, Jake Evans wrote: >[Please cc in replies, not currently subscribed. Thank you.] > >I have a quick question that I can't seem to find an answer to via Google >so far. > >I've had a few people complain that when they telnet/ssh/ftp/web to our >server, it's slow... I've traced the problem to them having no reverse on >their IPs. > >So basically their connection kinda hangs while the system waits to >timeout on looking up their IP's reverse. > > From what I can tell, I should be able to just set "options timeout:n" > and "options attempts:n" in resolv.conf.. BUT it seems FBSD's install > doesn't allow you to do this. > >Does anyone know a workaround to this? I thought maybe of changing it >directly in resolv.h but then I'd have to rebuild world I think..? Is >there perhaps a sysctl solution? > >Thank you so much for your time. set UseDNS to no in /etc/sshd_config -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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