Re: Time to connect to a freebsd box



Nico schrieb:
Wolfgang Meiners wrote:
Hello,
I am using ssh on serveral computers here, one linuxbox, one OSXbox and
one freebsdbox. When i connect to the freebsdbox, it takes a very long
time (about 1 min) to establish the connection. Therefor i tried

Is the FreeBSD box overloaded? And does your client show up in forward
and reverse DNS for the FreeBSD box? The almost mandatory DNS and
reverse DNS lookups for connecting clients can cause significant delays.


Hello Nico,
after a long time, i discovered your answer and the following thread.
This lead me to the idea, to put the line

UseDNS no

into the sshd_config. This worked!
Thank you and the others for information

Wolfgang
(hope, my english is not to bad)
.



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