On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 04:20:22PM -0700, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > > --- 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. The remote system does not know how you managed to make the connection (DNS name, host name or IP address; remember that in the end it makes the connection using the IP address via IP), but it always attempts to resolve your client's hostname when you connect. Kris
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