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

[Vasil Dimov]

> 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

No such option in sshd_config(5), are you talking about the ssh from the
base system? OpenSSH_3.6.1p1 FreeBSD-20030924?