From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 17 14:46:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 702FD37B401 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 14:46:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web20109.mail.yahoo.com (web20109.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 43C2B43E6A for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 14:46:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdneophyte@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20020917214647.86936.qmail@web20109.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.65.83.156] by web20109.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 14:46:47 PDT Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 14:46:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Bsd Neophyte Subject: long pause when SSH'ing to FreeBSD server To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG this happens intermittantly. i don't know why, but when i connect to my FreeBSD box using putty, there is an extremely long pause for the following: 1. the login prompt to come up 2. the password prompt to come up after i type in the username 3. the connection to be established after i enter the password can anyone let me know how i can aleviate this pause problem? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes http://autos.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message