it takes a long long long time to time-out a login attempt

[Mark Weinem]

On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Sameer wrote:

> I'm trying to ssh into my FreeBSD (5.2.1-release sparc version) box
> from my desktop, however, it'll take a few seconds for the "login as"
> prompt to appear.  I enter my the user name and hit enter. the login
> attempt then sits there for about 90 seconds w/o asking for the
> password, then the connection times out.  Any ideas what's causing
> this?


Put "UseDNS no" (without the quotes!) into /etc/ssh/sshd_config


Greetings, Mark Weinem