Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 07:04:24PM +0100, n dhert wrote: >> On a newly installed FreeBSD7.2, when booting it takes a long time to get >> past "Starting sshd.". >> I'm using the PC only in a private network. The IP of the PC is 192.168.75.8 >> # ssh [email protected] >> or # ssh [email protected] >> take both 15 seconds to display >> Password: ... >> At setup, I did specify a hostname, a domainname, a default_router >> (192.168.75.14) and >> DNS server 192.168.254.100 (in the future to be replace by non-private IPs), >> >> but since I am testing only in a private network and only with IP adresses >> (no hostnames) >> these are not used. >> So what is causing that delay at Start of sshd and use of ssh? > > Reverse DNS lookup. Make sure you have PTR entries for all IPs in use.
Or, in the case of an internal-only IP scheme, where configuring rDNS entries is not possible/not feasible, you can disable DNS lookups in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file by uncommenting and setting: UseDNS no Restart the sshd daemon for the change to take effect. Steve _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
