> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:20:22 -0700 (PDT) > From: Bsd Neophyte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > --- Kevin Oberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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? > > > > It's almost certainly a DNS problem. Make sure that both forward and > > reverse DNS is working for the names/addresses of both systems. > > i use the ip address though... and i'm not using any dns services on the > FreeBSD box (i really don't know how to set it up to begin with) does this > still make it a dns problem?
Yes. ssh ALWAYS tries to resolve the ip address of the remote system. Try entering the address of the remote system into /etc/hosts. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
